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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career03 March 2020Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experience...
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The QSPainRelief consortium will improve the treatment of chronic pain28 February 2020The €6.24 million EU-funded research project QSPainRelief has kicked off. The project aims to help patients suffering from chronic pain with novel, pe...
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This is how ESA telescope Euclid is going to visualise dark matter25 February 2020How can you see something that’s invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the Universe and teach us more abou...
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Lively debate at public symposium on sustainability21 February 2020A public symposium was held at Leiden University on 20 February on a hot topic: renewable energy. This is the second time in a year that the Universit...
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Partnering with businesses to scale up metabolism research21 February 2020Predicting whether someone will fall ill and which treatment will benefit them most: that is the aim of the techniques that Professor of Analytical Bi...
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From stress to success: Vici grant for Dennis Claessen20 February 2020Why do some bacteria lose their protective cell wall under the influence of stress? Microbiologist Dennis Claessen of the Institute of Biology Leiden ...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science Day14 February 2020Working on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...
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‘Don’t ever discriminate yourself by any gender-related label’11 February 2020Iranian molecular plant biologist Salma Balazadeh started her career in Germany. Now she sets up a research group in Leiden to study stress in plants ...
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‘Universities and government should take the lead in the fight against cybercrime’07 February 2020From ransomware to Citrix traffic jams: over the past few months Dutch organisations were regularly brought to a standstill by serious cyber attacks. ...
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Translating science into treatments of rare metabolic disorders06 February 2020Leiden biotech startup Azafaros has successfully completed a funding round, raising 25 million euros of investments for developing treatments of rare ...
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Ebola-on-a-chip: Leiden scientists against a fatal virus03 February 2020Although Ebola is a virus with significant fatality rates, we still lack effective countermeasures to battle it. To change this, Alireza Mashaghi and ...
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The city as an urban mine30 January 2020Raw materials should no longer be excavated from mines, but reused from sources that are already present, such as unused underground electricity cable...
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Awards for three Leiden Partnership projects with industry sector28 January 2020NWO is funding three partnership projects with the industry sector. The projects relate to speeding up the search for new medicines, studying the chan...
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The roughening of a platinum electrode27 January 2020Smooth platinum electrodes roughen and wear when subjected to repeated cycles of oxidation and reduction, which causes nanometer-scale mounds to grow....
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Snake venom glands grown in lab23 January 2020For the first time, researchers were able to grow organoids from snake venom glands. The lab-grown 3-D structures can produce snake venom molecules. T...