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Medicines – from idea to market
Every year, countless new medicines are developed in the European Union. Of course they have to undergo a long and scrupulous process...

MTEC
11 apr


Seeing red, or green
One of the longest-standing philosophical questions is whether we all perceive colour in the same way. A new investigation strongly...

MTEC
8 apr


Our four-legged quacks smell Parkinson’s with almost 90% accuracy
That our four-legged friends assist us in so many ways is a given. From their wonderful work as assistance dogs, through to getting...

MTEC
4 apr


Put an emergency kit together: medication and first aid
The European Commission is advising everyone to put an emergency kit together. Such an emergency kit would allow you to survive for at...

MTEC
1 apr


Oh go on then, just a small one
Ongoing research is strongly suggesting that we may not be entirely to blame ourselves for taking that extra portion of dessert after a...

MTEC
25 mrt


Bilingualism and Brain Health
Research from multiple studies is now suggesting that speaking more than one language delays the onset of dementia. This is assumed to be...

MTEC
21 mrt


Grey Matter in the Freezer
Sterling progress is currently being made by scientists in the cryopreservation (very deep freezing usually using liquid nitrogen) of...

MTEC
20 mrt


Antibiotics from China
More than 80 percent of antibiotics in Belgium comes from China: “If China cuts off the supply we will not even be able to perform...

MTEC
12 mrt


Meet the Team: Veronique & Kevin
In the world of translation, there is often very little personal contact between translators and their clients. With MTEC, we found it...

MTEC
21 feb


A Heart or a Liver for Medical Translations?
We Have a Heart for Medical Translations. Yet should we be living and working in a different culture or in other times, we could have a...

MTEC
18 feb


A Heart for Medical Translations
To the outsider, translation may seem like a pretty straightforward profession: you have a text which you convert into another language....

MTEC
14 feb


Meet the Team: Jolanda & Katrien
In the world of translation, there is often very little personal contact between translators and their clients. With MTEC, we found it...

MTEC
11 feb


World Cancer Day
Today, 4 February, is World Cancer Day. Worldwide, there are many ongoing clinical trials to find treatments for this devastating...

MTEC
4 feb


Joining Forces in 2025
Self-employed translators have a plethora of invisible colleagues. For us, working at home (read: working alone) is more the rule rather...

MTEC
31 dec 2024
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