In brief: a CERN hub in Hasselt, a personalised cancer vaccine and a 250,000-tonne block of ice
Five research and health stories from Belgian newsrooms.
Hasselt's Corda Campus is getting Europe's first CERN innovation hub, a partnership between the particle physics lab and POM Limburg intended to give Belgian companies better access to its technology, Het Nieuwsblad and Het Belang van Limburg report.
Moderna and Merck & Co. presented data showing that a personalised cancer vaccine, combined with an existing treatment, works against skin cancer. Cancer experts are enthusiastic, while analysts had hoped for more, De Tijd writes.
Leuven start-up Brainphonics has developed a hearing test based on brainwaves; UZ Leuven will be the first hospital to use it, according to De Tijd.
In Switzerland, a 250,000-tonne block of ice threatens to break off a glacier above the village of Randa. The block is moving about 20 centimetres a day and alert level 3 remains in force, VRT NWS and Het Nieuwsblad report.
And a VRT NWS fact check of a widely viewed video: folic acid does not cause autism.