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VIB Technologies

VIB Technologies

The role of technology as a facilitator for breakthrough science can hardly be overstated. That is why VIB Technologies will be featured in news articles, blog posts, on the VIB website, and social media from March 6th until April 7th. On this page, you can find all VIB Technologies-related news, blog posts, videos, and more. Keep an eye on the hashtag #VIBTechnologies on our social media channels and engage in the conversation.

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To the Core of the matter

To the Core of the matter

To get to the heart of biology, we need to zoom in. Beyond tissues, beyond cells, down to the level of proteins. These proteins are the tools, encoded in our genome, that make life work. Advances in life sciences research now allow us to refine these tools for our own purposes. This is what the VIB Nanobody and Protein Cores do. These two Core facilities stand out from the others by offering “production-based” molecular services. Their extensive experience and state-of-the-art technology allow them to produce their respective, often protein-based, products efficiently. Their close partnership allows them to build on each other’s work, which makes them both prominent players in the field of applied and basic protein biology.

Introducing the VIB Single Cell Core

Introducing the VIB Single Cell Core

As VIB’s newest Core Facility, the Single Cell Core culminated from a wide array of single-cell ‘omics’ activities across VIB between 2016 and 2021, after a complex ramp-up. “The single-cell domain is booming,” enthuses Niels Vandamme, Head of the VIB Single Cell Core. “But we can’t investigate single cells without working closely with other adjacent VIB Core Facilities, Tech Watch, and the center-embedded expertise units.”

VIB Tech Watch: laying the technological groundwork for excellent science

VIB Tech Watch: laying the technological groundwork for excellent science

Founded in 2007, VIB Tech Watch – which, together with VIB Core Facilities, makes up VIB Technologies – was created with two key goals in mind. “Through the Tech Watch program, VIB scouts and evaluates emerging life sciences technologies and then provides scientists with the support they need to get the best out of them,” elaborates Wai Long Tam, Head of Tech Watch at VIB Technologies. “Today, we’re going beyond those two goals by setting up an entire business case for each new technology in collaboration with researchers, Core Facilities, and other stakeholders. It’s something completely new in our life sciences ecosystem.”

VIB Core Facilities: at the heart of tech enablement

VIB Core Facilities: at the heart of tech enablement

Making tech expertise accesible

VIB Technologies: a paradigm shift for future-proof life sciences research

VIB Technologies: a paradigm shift for future-proof life sciences research

Encompassing the VIB Core Facility program and VIB Tech Watch, VIB Technologies brings highly complex, novel technologies to researchers – and unites researchers across disciplines – to achieve ​ scientific breakthroughs.

molecular cartography workflow

How VIB became a vigorous user of the Molecular Cartography workflow

An insider's look at VIB's collaboration with Resolve Biosciences

hyDrop

Better, cheaper, easier, HyDrop

New open-source single-cell sequencing platform outperforms its predecessors

Single Cell Hashing

Doing more with less

How single-cell hashing can reduce experimental cost

Protagonists

Core Facilities

Core Facilities

As part of the VIB Technologies, the 12 VIB Core Facilities, provide support in a wide array of research fields and housing specialized scientific equipment for each discipline. Science and technology go hand in hand. New technologies advance science and often accelerate breakthroughs in scientific research. VIB has a visionary approach to science and technology, founded on its ability to identify and foster new innovations in life sciences.
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Tech Watch

Tech Watch Core

Explore VIB Tech Watch Core's pioneering role in discovering and integrating cutting-edge technologies in biotech research. We facilitate early access to novel technologies, foster valuable partnerships, and offer co-evaluation opportunities. Dive into our collaborations and breakthroughs in sequencing, proteomics, imaging, and more. Connect with our expert team to advance scientific innovation.
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Related conferences

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Revolutionizing Next-Generation Sequencing

After 4 very successful editions (Jan 2015, Leuven, March 2017, Antwerp and March 2019, Antwerp, March 2021, virtual), VIB is proud to present the fifth edition of this Tools & Technologies conference.

Related origin stories

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Enabling science through technology with VIB Cores

“It’s impossible to arrive at ground-breaking discoveries without access to the cutting edge," says Dr. Geert Van Minnebruggen, Technology Director at VIB.