The Night of Discoveries on 19 December is an evening of art, chance encounters, thought-provoking talks, live music and interactive experiences acros...

Women with an inherited BRCA1 mutation have an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. This type of tumour depends on the protein EXO1 to survive...

Tense faces, nervous glances and lots of excited new students. Thousands of students gather at Lammermarket on Monday morning. EL CID 2026 is about to...

Mimetas, a spin-off from Thomas Hankemeier’s research group, is being acquired by Bruker Corporation. For Hankemeier, it is proof that scientific idea...

We all make choices every day, but what actually happens in your brain when you make a decision? Neuroscientist Anne Urai explains how brain cells pro...

World Lung Cancer Day (1 August) is not just about the disease; it’s about the person behind the diagnosis. We spoke with Professor of Lung Surgery Ko...

More students are training to become teachers at university, according to Universities of the Netherlands, the sector organisation representing Dutch ...

The UN Refugee Convention was signed on 28 July 1951. Seventy-five years later the world has dramatically changed. Three researchers reflect on the si...

Using advanced electron microscopy, researchers in Leiden have captured detailed images showing how, in the rare pregnancy disorder FNAIT, antibodies ...

Together with Professor Violeta-Moreno Lax, Leiden researcher Sarah Wolff has advised Frontex, the EU and other institutions on a European framework f...