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Correcting each other’s mistakes - why cells stuck together in early evolution 23 October 2020The transition from single cells to multicellular organisms was a key step in evolution. Researchers from Leiden and Amsterdam developed a mathematica...
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Robbin Bastiaansen on thesis award: ‘This proves you should never give up’ 06 October 2020Using mathematics as a weapon against desertification. With this subject, Robbin Bastiaansen managed to win the C.J. Kok Jury Prize 2019, the prize fo...
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Cells ‘walk’ to firm ground 11 September 2020A new mathematical model may explain how body cells get their shapes and what makes them move within a tissue. The model provides fundamental knowledg...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting 07 September 2020From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Leiden scientists develop topological barcodes for folded molecules 25 August 2020The team of Alireza Mashaghi at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research has found a way to determine and classify the shape of proteins. Their ne...
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A mathematical shoe-tying award 18 August 2020Knots come in all shapes and sizes: mariners and scouts can vouch for this. Sjabbo Schaveling will obtain his PhD on 1 September for a mathematical me...
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New scanning method turns objects inside out at high speed 29 June 2020What if you could watch a CT scan live, instead of analysing the images afterwards? If it is up to the Leiden mathematician Jan-Willem Buurlage, that ...
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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publication 05 June 2020The leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine.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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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by Escher 30 April 2020Twenty 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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NETWORKS consortium receives COFUND grant from European Commission 06 April 2020The Gravitation programme NETWORKS has been awarded a COFUND grant of 3 million euros. Half of this comes from the European Commission's Marie Skłodow...
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Hardly an audience and a remote committee: receiving a PhD in times of corona 19 March 2020Almost all PhD defences at Leiden University have been postponed due to the corona virus, but statistician Sanne Willems is going through with hers. I...
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Leiden statisticians create app for patients and doctors to calculate cancer survival probabilities 11 March 2020A new app is able to calculate personalised survival probabilities for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. Doctors and patients can use the a...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists 24 February 2020Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020 07 February 2020German mathematician Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020 at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden. He held the Kloosterman Lecture on 6 Fe...
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Dynamic personalised sarcoma care: implementation of a mathematical prediction app in the clinic 22 January 2020A new app provides dynamic predictions of survival for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. It was developed by the mathematical Institute res...