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How Leiden's drug pioneers have switched to Covid research 22 June 2020
From studying molecules in the blood of corona patients to developing a new concept for vaccines. The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)...
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Leiden spin-off In Ovo awarded 2.5 million grant 10 June 2020
Leiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has received a European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot Grant. In Ovo will use th...
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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publication 05 June 2020
The leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The reason for this is t...
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Omid Karami wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award 05 June 2020
Plant scientist Omid Karami is the first winner of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award. The jury praises the outstanding quality of his scien...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decision 01 June 2020
Lions limit their prey, such as zebra and gnu, in their options for adapting to global warming. This is what Leiden researcher Michiel Veldhuis, from ...
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Here is how we can increase the effectiveness of global environment protection 29 May 2020
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) identified six top priorities where environmental interventions can make the most diffe...
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Probing the secret forces of pericytes 28 May 2020
Leiden researchers found a way to measure the tiny forces exerted by pericytes, one of the most elusive, hard to research cell types, which occur in t...
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Beetle can limit hay fever 08 May 2020
Leiden biologist Suzanne Lommen and an international team of scientists have investigated how a beetle can reduce hay fever in Europe. Locally, the be...
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Fabiola Diana and Liza Cornet win FameLab Leiden pre-round 30 April 2020
The preliminary round in Leiden was cancelled, in part due to the corona crisis, but three young Leiden researchers were able to take part in the prel...
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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by Escher 30 April 2020
Twenty years onwards, in a review of an Escher exhibition in Italy, Nature Physics writes about it again: Leiden mathematicians helping Escher out. A ...
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories 23 April 2020
Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Longevity gene discovered in plants 14 April 2020
Harvesting rice from the same field, without planting new rice plants? A discovery may bring this scenario closer. Leiden scientists have discovered a...
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Arthur Ram receives NWO grant to improve enzyme factory 06 April 2020
This year, microbiologist Arthur Ram will start new research on producing useful enzymes in bulk. Ram receives an NWO grant for this project that will...
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help 06 April 2020
Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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Keep busy with these astronomy activities you can do from home 02 April 2020
Stuck at home with little to do? Don’t worry, because we have the perfect space related activities you can do from home, alone or with your family, in...