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Students hunting for breakthrough in antibiotics resistance14 August 2018Bacteria that fluoresce green, blue or red may play a role in combatting resistance against antibiotics. Under the motto of 'Say yes to stress', thir...
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Enthusiastic start to EL CID13 August 2018More than 3,500 enthusiastic Leiden first-years, 80% of them coming to Leiden University, gathered on Monday morning 13 August at the Lammermarkt for...
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A step closer to sustainable energy from seawater10 August 2018The research group headed by Leiden chemist Marc Koper has discovered a catalyst that minimizes the production of chlorine gas during salt water elect...
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Discovering new physics in extremely bright neutron stars07 August 2018Astronomer Alexander Mushtukov, currently working at the University of Amsterdam, received a Veni grant of 250,000 euro’s which he will execute in Lei...
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Teacher of the Year 2017 throws students in at the deep end with supervision06 August 2018"I did not know that I could become even more proud of you." Kristian Rietveld's father responded to the news that his son was appointed Teacher of th...
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From scientific idea to promising new drug30 July 2018Many pharmaceutical companies no longer have their own lab and are working more closely with universities and start-ups of scientists. Professor of Sc...
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Beijing Normal University visits Leiden for Astronomy Summer School26 July 2018The Leiden Observatory was very pleased to welcome eight bachelor’s students from Beijing Normal University at 8 July for the BNU Astronomy Summer Sch...
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Tapping new markets for rapid DNA unraveller19 July 2018Researching DNA material for genetic disorders using the most powerful apparatus. This is what GenomeScan, a company on the Leiden Bio Science Park, d...
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Thinking outside your scientific box19 June 2018How do you study complex disasters like a nuclear explosion or a natural disaster? Who can help unravel the legal knot that Brexit has become? The imp...
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The underwater Hobbit – a new shrimp species08 June 2018‘In a hole under water there lived a hobbit’: a new species of shrimp named after Bilbo Baggings. Biology student Werner de Gier described this newly ...
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Move of SRON space research institute to South Holland now official30 May 2018By adding their signature to the collaboration agreement on 31 May, Leiden University, TU Delft, space research institute SRON and NWO confirmed the...
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From practical cookbook session to practical research session24 May 2018How do I conduct research? How do I structure, conduct and record what I’ve thought of and done? The Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Programme didn’t just...
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Students solve spider mystery in Borneo17 May 2018They sprayed with corn starch and made detailed drawings of the genitalia of spiders. In different ways students studied spiders in the dense tropical...
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A Sizzling Summer of Space14 May 2018For the first time in the Netherlands this summer: the Space Studies Programme - an international summer university for those who aspire to a space ca...
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Martienke Baaij receives the “Kees Bakker Award”26 April 2018Leiden Biology student Martienke Baaij received the annual award for being the best BSc-student in 2017 from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakker-fo...