In the media
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Programming to understand the world 01 February 2021
‘We are surrounded by software and thus it is important that every child learns to program,’ says Felienne Hermans, associate professor at the Leiden ...
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How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture 25 January 2021
Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy...
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Nathaniel Martin: why won’t antibiotics cure us anymore? 12 January 2021
Current means of fighting bacteria are no longer as good as they used to be because of antibiotic resistance. These days, people are dying from bacter...
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Felienne Hermans explains why you should talk to your computer 11 January 2021
Why should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In th...
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Programming is easy to learn 21 December 2020
The easy-to-learn programming language Hedy has been used more than 100,000 times in no more than 9 months. Felienne Hermans was a guest in the broadc...
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Technique from new cars helps with surgery selection Parkinson's disease 09 November 2020
When parking in reverse, your car skids off just a little, hitting the wall of the parking garage. On the car dashboard, a warning light immediately s...
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Micro boat makes world tour 27 October 2020
World wide press attention for the article and specifically the image of the 30 micrometer long micro boat 3DBenchy by Rachel Doherty, Daniela Kraft a...
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Bots like you 05 October 2020
Can we study what makes us human through the eyes of a robot? Peter van der Putten and Maarten Lamers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Sci...
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Nathaniel Martin in podcast about antimicrobial resistance 23 September 2020
Professor Biological chemistry Nathaniel Martin from the Institute of Biology Leiden is interviewed by the Netherlands Innovation Network on innovativ...
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National and international media attention for longevity gene 21 September 2020
A publication in Nature Plants by a team of Leiden biologists has received national and international media attention. The researchers can have annual...
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Women researchers shook up the world of bird song 15 September 2020
For 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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A compound that gives life as easily as it takes: Jan Willem Erisman on BBC about ammonium nitrate 11 September 2020
Following the Beirut explosion, BBC's podcast series The Foodchain explores the chemical that caused the blast: ammonium nitrate. A compound that is w...
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Cell-based medicinal products: grant rejected, paper published 26 June 2020
Cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs) belong to an innovative and heterogeneous group of medicines called advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)....
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In the media: Daniela Kraft in Academic Stories about nanoparticle robots 27 May 2020
Daniela Kraft speaks to Academic Stories about self-assembling soft matter, nanorobots, the importance of female rodels in science, and the unique fre...
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Six-feet society in pictures 06 May 2020
The six-feet society is being built up rapidly; arrows and planes made of tape, circles and stripes of chalk, fences and other barriers are popping up...