News
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Microbes protect crops from microbes 03 June 2021
Farmers do not love them all. Microbes can cause tragic consequences for crops. Even the presence of just one pathogenic fungus or bacterium can drast...
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook 31 May 2021
With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing tha...
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Producing new plants without sowing 10 May 2021
Producing offspring of a crop without sowing and that is even bigger than the parent plant. According to Leiden researchers this can be achieved by ov...
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’ 07 May 2021
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth compan...
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Disrupted movement makes macrophages more lethal to tuberculosis bacteria 14 April 2021
Macrophages – the front line of our immune system – protect us from infections. But in the case of the tuberculosis bacteria, this often goes wrong. T...
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Sea sponges may seem like simple creatures, but… 12 April 2021
One of them turned out to be two thousand years old. And older giant barrel sponges appear to have a faster rate of cell division, unlike us. They pro...
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Which DNA is floating in the ditch? 08 April 2021
You pour a scoop of ditch water in the DNA scanner, and voilà: you know exactly which plants and animals the ditch accommodates. Well, it is not that ...
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Free online course teaches you all about imaging 30 March 2021
How do you microscopically image zebrafish larvae? The new free online course ‘Imaging the Vertebrate embryo’ teaches you all about it. Leiden PhD can...
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Corona waste kills animals throughout the entire world 24 March 2021
Face masks and gloves designed to protect us are, in fact, dangerous for the animals around us. Scientists from Leiden warn that throughout the world,...
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Researchers discover hitchhiking bacteria 23 March 2021
Imagine that you need to travel, but you don’t have a car and you’re dead broke. What do you do? Hitchhiking, of course! Leiden biologists found that ...
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Miraculous mechanism allows plant cells to directionally distribute the growth hormone auxin 18 March 2021
Leiden and Austrian researchers have succeeded in further uncovering how a plant cell passes on the growth hormone auxin in a directional manner to th...
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New light on innate plant immunity 11 March 2021
Plants are able to resist a pathogen’s attack by a dual innate immune system. The relationship between the two pathways was not clear, but it turns ou...
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Why biology students and teachers value the E-learning skills platform 11 March 2021
Students of the Biology minor course Molecular Design have successfully boosted their skills in collaboration, research and writing with the recently ...
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The EPIC Alliance joins forces to combat antibiotic resistance 07 March 2021
No, this isn’t about a Star Wars Alliance that wants to suppress The Resistance. Rather, the EPIC Alliance brings together scientific experts from sev...
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New tenure track: understanding and engineering microbial metabolism for health and sustainability 01 March 2021
On 1 March, Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski will start on a tenure track position at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). With a focus on the natura...