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Ieder jaar reizen de studenten van de derde bachelor farmaceutische wetenschappen een week naar het buitenland in het kader van de Internationale Inleefdagen. Dit jaar ging de reis naar Kuopio in Finland.
We vroegen aan Sofie Wyckmans, student farmaceutische wetenschappen aan de Universiteit Antwerpen, om haar ervaringen neer te pennen.

Seas and oceans harbor countless undiscovered treasures. One of these is the seagrass Thalassia, specifically the species Thalassia testudinum. Long recognized for its ecological importance, this marine plant serves as a vital food source for creatures like sea turtles and plays a key role in protecting vulnerable Caribbean coastal ecosystems. Recently, scientists have discovered that Thalassia contains significant anti-carcinogenic compounds, capturing the attention of researchers and marine science biomedical institutes.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to David Baker (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper (Google DeepMind, UK) for their work on developing Rosetta (Baker) and AlphaFold (Hassabis and Jumper). These open-source software tools enable researchers worldwide to go from an amino acid sequence to a 3D structure of a protein with just one mouse click.