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If you get cancer, it often means intensive medical treatment right away. But cancer patients are more than just their illness, and treatments are more than just medical help. Professor Tessa Kerre emphasizes the importance of kinder care. The Ghent University reading project is a good example of this.

Many diseases, including neurological ones, cannot be cured as yet, and sometimes medication doesn’t help. Fortunately, there is good news with other treatments, like stimulating cranial nerves. Professor Kristl Vonck explains how it’s possible to treat epilepsy, depression and perhaps even corona using neurostimulation.

“From an infection point of view, we should already have gone to code red in September.” That’s what Professor Steven Callens of UZ Gent says. As head of the Infectious Diseases department, he was one of those who gave advice to the rector about switching to code red. “We are concerned about the health of the students. The virus will only stop through human actions,” he says.

Might soft drinks’ machines with no cans soon become the norm? That’s certainly what a few student entrepreneurs are planning. They’ve developed an ecological and healthy drinks machine where you can fill your reusable-drinking bottle with soft drinks. One of the creators is Colin Deblonde, a young entrepreneur who studies applied economics at Ghent University.

Everyone knows the statement of René Descartes “Je pense donc je suis.” But did you know that the famous thinker actually said something before this phrase? “Je doute donc je pense, je pense donc je suis.” This translates to “I have doubts, so I am.” This phrase is the mantra of Ghent University Museum (GUM).

Three alumni look back at their time in education and the road they eventually chose. In effect, even though they started on the same path, it took them to different places. Caroline Landsheere, Anja Goethals and Bas Bogaerts all studied archaeology. The passion for the past is still there, even though it doesn’t play as big a role as before for each of them.

The GUM — Ghent University Museum — finally opened its doors to the general public on Saturday 3rd October. Finally! After seven long months of waiting. But don’t think that the employees have been idle all this time. On the contrary, there was a lot to still do in the run-up to the opening.

Large companies know more about us than our own mothers. The massive gathering, storing and use of our online data has become commonplace, to such an extent that we have lost control of that data. The Solid project wants to change that. Its ambition? Reform the World Wide Web.

We live in the post-antibiotic era. At least that’s what the World Health Organization (WHO) says. And not without foundation — it suggests some ten million people will die annually from antibiotic-resistant bacteria by 2050 if we don’t act now. Furthermore, there are more cancers than now. And so it is a feverish search for alternatives. Ghent University researchers have already come up with a promising breakthrough.

Joris, Selena, Bob and Bert are a couple of the students who are working together with the GUM (Ghent University Museum). Discover why these four 'MuST’ers' are so excited about the brand-new science museum.