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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories19 December 2022Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...
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'Science works better when you are diverse'09 December 2022Aske Plaat is the scientific director of LIACS, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Systems. He is also an ambassador for Leiden University's LG...
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Nobel Prize winner visited Leiden: 'We have hosted a scientific rockstar'08 December 2022On 28 September the famous chemists Carolyn Bertozzi visited Leiden University to speak at the LED3 seminar. Just one week later, she was announced wi...
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Nobel Prize for quantum physics: the circle for Bell's theorem is complete08 December 2022This year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to quantum physics research. The prize will be awarded on December 10 in Stockholm. Physicist Bas Hensen expla...
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Combining art and science in the recovery of Ukraine08 December 2022How wonderful would it be to use art, technology and science in Ukraine's recovery? Young Ukrainians currently residing in Poland get guidance to deve...
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Photo of fish in Covid glove on shortlist for prestigious nature prize02 December 2022With his photo of a fish trapped in a rubber glove, external PhD candidate Auke-Florian Hiemstra has made it to the shortlist for the People’s Choice ...
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Martina Vijver wins NWO Athena Award for outstanding female researchers02 December 2022‘She is an example to young researchers who are beginning to find their career path’, wrote the jury of the NWO Athena Award about Professor of Ecotox...
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Drug discovery 3.0: more effective and humane01 December 2022Discovering effective new drugs is a long, expensive and uncertain process. Laura Heitman wants to improve this by finding out more about how drugs bi...
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Will the new plans steer us out of the nitrogen crisis? Expert Jan Willem Erisman explains29 November 2022They were eagerly awaited: four letters from five ministers that should provide clarity on how to get us out of the nitrogen crisis. Nitrogen expert J...
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Mathematics student Lars Pos wins Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize: 'Discoveries find their application in the most unexpected places'25 November 2022With his essay 'Why science?', mathematics prodigy Lars Pos (18) won the Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize. Within the theme 'The fascinating workings of ...
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Children become bacteria to learn about antibiotics21 November 2022Last Friday the global Antibiotics Awareness Week begun: an entire week dedicated to antibiotic use. Antibiotics researchers from the LACDR therefore ...
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Curing diseases with lab-grown organs15 November 2022Organs and tissues grown in the lab may in the future be able to cure people with organ failures. Micha Drukker, professor of Stem Cells, Developmenta...
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‘But how many bacteria live on my hands, then?’ Micro-day in photos01 November 2022From 22 to 24 October, researchers of the MARBLES-project informed museum visitors about microbes: bacteria and fungi that live all around us. The eve...
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Three Leiden researchers receive ERC Synergy Grant25 October 2022Leiden researchers Arjen Doelman, Tom Huizinga and Manfred Wuhrer have been awarded ERC Synergy Grants worth millions of euros for their research on p...
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Lab coats off and rain boots on: students do research in the polder06 October 2022The Vrouw Vennepolder near Oud Ade has been transformed into the Polderlab. Scientists and students from Leiden University, together with farmers and ...