In the media
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Bots like you05 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 resistance23 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 gene21 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 song15 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 nitrate11 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 published26 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 robots27 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 pictures06 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...
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Programming resembles learning a language06 April 2020
What languages do you speak? According to Felienne Hermans, ‘Python’ could be an answer to this question. Hermans studies how people learn to program ...
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From intuition to data03 April 2020
Dutch speedskaters have been winning the most medals in speed skating at the Winter Olympics for years. How? Based on their intuition. Scientist Jeroe...
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International media report on Leiden dosage app for corona patients30 March 2020
Coen van Hasselt's research group quickly produced an app that enables doctors to determine the correct dosage of commonly used medicines for corona p...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!25 March 2020
Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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World news: eleven asteroids on a collision course with Earth09 March 2020
The discovery that eleven asteroids might collide with our Earth has become world news. The research of three Leiden astronomers has appeared on more ...
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‘Holland, invest in the national AI-ecosystem’27 February 2020
The European Commission published new plans on artificial intelligence on 19 February. According to Holger Hoos, professor in Machine Learning at the ...
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Improving football skills using data-mining10 February 2020
Using positional data to determine which tactics lead to a successful attack? Rens Meerhoff, researcher at the Sports Data Center of the Leiden Instit...