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Women researchers shook up the world of bird song 15 September 2020For a long time, bird song was considered as a typical male trait. But over the last twenty years, research has shown that a lot of female songbirds s...
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Briegel winner in global competition by the Moore Foundation 28 July 2020Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural biology in Leiden, has received a prestigious incentive from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. With ...
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Balanced lethal systems: a quick guide by Ben Wielstra 07 July 2020Ben Wielstra studies balanced lethal systems, in which half of the offspring die before birth. In the journal Current Biology, he explains in an acces...
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Hans Slabbekoorn receives NWA grant to study fish around wind farms in the North Sea 04 June 2020The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded behavioural biologist Hans Slabbekoorn (Institute of Biology Leiden) a grant of 750,000 euros to study fish a...
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‘Unimportant’ plant gene turns out to be essential 12 May 2020Leiden biologists have shown that a gene present in plants, animals and yeasts does play an important role in plants, although for years the gene was ...
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Evolution of bacterial movement revealed 28 April 2020
An international team with researchers from Leiden revealed how a bacterium repurposed an internal system to control its movements. Movement control i...
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Longevity gene discovered in plants 14 April 2020Harvesting 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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Snake venom glands grown in lab 23 January 2020For the first time, researchers were able to grow organoids from snake venom glands. The lab-grown 3-D structures can produce snake venom molecules. T...
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Altruism in bacteria: colonies divide the work 16 January 2020Bacteria found in soil specialise in the colony by division of labour. Some of the bacteria produce antibiotics, even when it comes at the expense of ...
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Student hauls in NWO grant for research into 'rejuvenating gene' 16 December 2019Master's student Thalia Luden receives an NWO grant for her research proposal about a gene that brings flowering plants back into a growth phase. Comp...
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These animal species are dear to us, but can we protect them? 11 October 2019Animal species that are dear to us in the Netherlands often spend a large part or all of their lifecycle in other parts of the world. But their habita...
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Ten thousand types of plant outgrowths bundled 08 October 2019For nine years he worked on the three-volume standard work Plant Galls of Europe. It yielded 2300 pages about 10,000 species of European galls, abnorm...
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Ben Wielstra about newts, bizarre evolution and Naturalis 30 September 2019Newts of which half of the offspring die before birth. Evolutionary biologist Ben Wielstra is investigating how this can exist in nature. In his resea...
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Birds around airports may be deaf and more aggressive 27 August 2019Birds around airports are more aggressive and sing as if they have hearing loss. Collaboration between researchers of Manchester Metropolitan Universi...
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Counting plants and small freshwater creatures for citizen science 17 June 2019Local residents, scientists and students are investigating riverbanks in Leiden for the 'Bank Plants' citizen science project. Which plant species are...