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Hunt for fundamental insight into and treatment for cancer 05 December 2017
To develop good cancer treatments, we need to know much more about how malignant tumour cells develop. Professor Ewa Snaar-Jagalska looks at not just ...
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IBL-research interview: Maurijn van der Zee 20 November 2017
Maurijn van der Zee, at the IBL since 2010, investigates how genetic changes in developmental programs lead to new animal forms in evolution, using in...
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Hundreds of fossil tree species belong to a single species 17 November 2017
Paleobotanist Menno Booi discovered that 250 previously described fossil tree species are objectively not distinguishable; they belong to only one sin...
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A summer school by the French coast 18 October 2017
Three Indonesian students participated in the Leiden summer school Crises in Biology. ‘In the end, we were all just one big group.’
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Leiden University more sustainable by the day 09 October 2017
10 October is the Day of Sustainability. What is the current status of sustainability at Leiden University? Things are moving ahead. Professor of Envi...
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Promising new collaborations with Institut Teknologi Bandung 17 September 2017
The Faculty of Science forges new research collaborations with the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia in the fields of tropical diseases, e.g. tu...
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Dr. Julia Cramer wins the NWO Minerva Prize for 2017 15 September 2017
Julia Cramer is the winner of NWO's Minerva Prize for 2017. Cramer will receive the prize for her research in the field of quantum science and technol...
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Vertebrate genome sequencing using nanopore technology 10 August 2017
An international team from the Netherlands, France, Norway and Austria demonstrate how new sequencing technologies can be used to efficiently generate...
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Veni-grant for Fleur Visser to study whale behaviour 31 July 2017
Fleur Visser was awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). She is one of seventeen promising young Leiden sc...
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Five Veni awards for Leiden Science researchers 31 July 2017
Five promising researchers at Leiden's Faculty of Science have received a Veni award from NWO. They can use the award - of up to 250,000 euros - to ca...
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches 28 July 2017
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This awa...
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Nanoparticles: a wonder material with a downside? 13 July 2017
Minute nanoparticles are bringing about a completely new industrial revolution. But little is known about the possible dangers to the food chain. An i...
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Macrophages as drivers of an opportunistic infection 07 July 2017
The opportunistic bacterium Burkholderia cenocepacia is feared by cystic fibrosis patients and is emerging in hospital-acquired infections. An interna...
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Startup brings new genetic knowledge to companies 29 June 2017
On 29 June the startup company Future Genomics Technologies will be launched. Its aim is to make DNA technology and research available for businesses ...
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The cognitive abilities of birds 22 June 2017
The recently published book ‘Avian Cognition’ is the first multi-author book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the cognitive abilities of birds ...