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Photo of fish in Covid glove on shortlist for prestigious nature prize 02 December 2022
With 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 researchers 02 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 humane 01 December 2022
Discovering 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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Alexander van Oudenhoven: 'Governance of Sustainability is something I would have wanted to study myself' 01 December 2022
Alexander van Oudenhoven is the brand-new education director of the master's in Governance of Sustainability. The study has already entered its fourth...
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Biology students expose exotic amphibians in the dunes 01 December 2022
During the spring of 2021, a group of eight biology students from Leiden set out into the dunes in search of amphibians. Using DNA, they determined th...
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Bacteria growing on light and air: a revolution for biotechnology? 30 November 2022
Research to experiment with bacteria that grow like plants has been granted the NWO XS grant. These bacteria use light and carbon dioxide to grow, and...
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Hunt for cheap metals that help store sustainable energy 29 November 2022
Storing energy is one of the biggest challenges in the energy transition. Hydrogen could be a solution. Chemist Daan den Boer is researching how to ma...
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Will the new plans steer us out of the nitrogen crisis? Expert Jan Willem Erisman explains 29 November 2022
They 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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Biology student Martijn Verkuilen wins Unilever Research Prize 29 November 2022
Martijn Verkuilen is the winner of the Unilever Research Prize 2022. By transferring DNA from a plant into yeast, he made the first move to produce a ...
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PhD candidate uses AI to search patient forums for unknown side effects 28 November 2022
Patients on patient forums share all sorts of things about their illness: from side effects and advice to messages of support. PhD candidate Anne Dirk...
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How superconducting memory could help data centres reduce their carbon footprint 28 November 2022
Listening to music on Spotify or watching Netflix or YouTube: few of us realise that CO2 is released in the process. This is because online services a...
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Mathematics student Lars Pos wins Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize: 'Discoveries find their application in the most unexpected places' 25 November 2022
With 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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Improving painkiller dosing in the clinic 25 November 2022
Children, cardiac surgery patients or people who are obese. How can we improve the dosing of painkillers for these patients? Hospital pharmacist Sjoer...
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Using biologically inspired algorithms in the physical world 25 November 2022
Using biologically inspired algorithms on 'edge devices', such as cameras and mobile phones, is what Svetlana Minakova's PhD research was all about. S...
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Webb reveals chemical profile of atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-39 b 22 November 2022
An international team of astronomers has revealed the first 'chemical profile' of an exoplanet's atmosphere. The team, including Leiden astronomer Yam...