Popular dating apps introduce tighter data security measures in response to KU Leuven research. Dating apps have become an essential tool for people who are looking for a date or partner.

KU Leuven geneticists discover two separate population groups that coexisted in early medieval Flanders. The early medieval period in Flanders is a period that is not very well-known, because of the limited historical and archaeological sources.

The Belgian-led consortium consisting of groups from The Queen Astrid Military Hospital (QAMH), KU Leuven and the public health institute Sciensano recently made the cover of Nature Microbiology.

Crohn's disease, affecting approximately 2 million people around the world, manifests with intestinal inflammation and abdominal pain. Current therapies primarily target inflammation using immunosuppressive treatments.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its Advanced Grants for ground-breaking research. Three KU Leuven researchers are among this year's recipients: Luc De Raedt, Stefaan Poedts and Greet Van den Berghe. 

New KU Leuven research shows that the risk of contracting schistosomiasis, an infectious disease caused by a parasitic flatworm, will increase considerably over the next century. Because of climate change, the freshwater snails that can transmit the parasite can now survive in various southern European countries. Researchers want to make people who go on holiday aware of the potential risks of taking a refreshing dive in a river or lake.

Researchers at KU Leuven studied the impact of pollution on evolutionary reactions of organisms that adapt to global warming. The research, published in , shows that pollution, specifically metal pollution, can neutralise the advantage of a fast evolution of heat tolerance in water organisms.

Since 2015, the Amazon has been slower to recover from increasing drought events, but, overall, the rainforest still shows a remarkable resilience. New international research led by KU Leuven earth and environmental scientists shows that forest degradation due to drought has been most pronounced in the southern Amazon, where human impact is greatest. 

NEW RESEARCH DEMONSTRATES FEASIBILITY OF 'FOUNDRY' MODEL FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS. The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large 'semiconductor fabrication plants' or 'foundries'.