In the media
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Ditching meat could release vital land to produce energy and remove carbon from the atmosphere29 February 2024A radical reduction in the amount of meat, dairy and other products sourced from animals is possible in the coming decades, as people turn to an incre...
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Nanotechnology promises to help farmers cut pesticide use – but could also make chemicals more toxic29 February 2024Nanotechnology has pervaded numerous industrial sectors over the past decades. Although many of us may not be aware of it, nanomaterials are now embed...
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Review paper on the potential impact drug-metabolizing enzymes on brain exposure31 January 2024PhD candidate Mengxu Zhang (Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy) published a comprehensive and important review on “The potential impact of ...
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Rethinking antibiotic therapy of urinary tract infections31 January 2024Suruchi Nepal, postdoc in the group of Coen van Hasselt at LACDR, was awarded an NWO XS project which aims to study the response to antibiotic treatme...
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Unlocking the potential of small molecules in cancer therapy30 January 2024How can we translate more fundamental discoveries into clinical solutions for patients? From that question, the Oncode Accelerator programme emerged. ...
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Sander Wezenberg receives the first "C2W Molecule of the Year" award18 January 2024The molecule calix[4]pyrrole, synthesised in the group of associate professor Sander Wezenberg at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, has been voted ‘M...
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NWO-XS grants for two innovative research projects12 December 2023Two Leiden Science researchers received an NWO-XS grant for their research. Both projects are highly promising, but also high-risk. Macrophages that t...
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How Euclid will reveal the dark side of the Universe07 December 2023ESA’s Euclid mission is to reveal the dark side of the Universe. But how? Professor of Observational cosmology Henk Hoekstra explains it in his interv...
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How can the voices of African scientists be heard?22 November 2023African researchers want more international research collaborations for better representation in the scientific community. As of now, their voices are...
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Opening of new DNA-GER research network27 October 2023On October 26, the Dutch Embassy in Berlin celebrated the opening of a new research network for Dutch academics in Germany. Dutch minister of Educatio...
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Translational data science: applications in health care05 October 2023How can you tie together scientific research and practical applications? That is exactly what Professor of Translational Data Science Marco Spruit is ...
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Urban green infrastructure: making future cities more sustainable07 August 2023Urban green infrastructure has the ability to make make cities more sustainable. However, the exact implementation of green infrastructure and the cho...
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance27 February 2023Researchers found a way to run programmes that should be impossible to carry out on an imperfect quantum computer. Such programmes are very computatio...
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‘In a normal murder case, you actually have a body’ statistician Richard Gill says in Science02 February 2023After diving into the murder trial of nurse Lucia de Berk, statistician Richard Gill became a leading expert on the statistics of medical murder cases...
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The urban mine is full of resources, but a circular economy is still too ambitious31 January 2023Reuse everything and stop producing waste. By 2050, the Netherlands should have a circular economy. However, the new Integral Circular Economy Report ...