News
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New research into hidden nature in our cities 27 September 2022
What hidden nature is there in our cities and how can we use such organisms? This is what the HiddenBiodiversity project will be exploring over the ne...
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Developing new therapies to fight muscle disease 26 September 2022
Biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his collaborators are taking up the fight against muscular dystrophy: genetic disorders that cause muscle weakness. ...
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Seeing Stars: Jupiter steals the show in cloudy night skies 26 September 2022
After months of preparation, the moment of truth had arrived: would the skies above Leiden clear for the promised glitzy planet-and-star show? The peo...
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How quantum mechanics threatens our digital lives – and makes them safer 23 September 2022
Much of the work of Serge Fehr, Professor of Quantum Information Theory, is abstract and theoretical and comprehensible to very few people. But his wo...
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New eDNA method opens doors for environmental research 22 September 2022
With a single sample of water or soil, researches can analyse the DNA of everything that is living in that environment. During her research, PhD candi...
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Bacteria without cell wall gobble up DNA from environment 20 September 2022
A bacterium hiding from the immune system and picking up bits of DNA from its environment. The result: gaining new traits, such as better protection...
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Open day at space research institute at Leiden Bio Science Park 20 September 2022
SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, is holding an open day on Sunday 25 September. It has had a branch at the Leiden Bio Science Park ...
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‘If we buy these imported products, we are co-responsible for the global decline in biodiversity’ 16 September 2022
What we buy and consume in Europe often has an impact on biodiversity somewhere else in the world. With a Horizon Europe Funding of 600.000 euros, ass...
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Can we live longer? Leiden physicist makes discovery in protective layer in genes 12 September 2022
With the aid of physics and a minuscule magnet, researchers have discovered a new structure of telomeric DNA. Telomeres are sometimes seen as the key ...
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BrAInpower exhibition: tremendous and troubling uses of AI in our daily lives 12 September 2022
Care robots, medical treatments, deepfakes and self-driving cars all with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). The BrAInpower exhibition at Rijksm...
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Iprotics Wins the Venture Challenge Spring 2022 12 September 2022
The winner of the 2022 Spring edition of the NWO Venture Challenge was announced during the Dutch Biotech Event. The innovative startup Iprotics has d...
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Improving the treatment of pathogenic fungi. ‘The process is working, but not that well…’ 08 September 2022
Fungi germinating in the lungs of patients. Doesn’t sound too nice, does it? Luckily, humans can deal with this normally, and we are able to clear the...
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Special nanoparticles for cancer therapy! Will you help? 08 September 2022
Developing a better treatment for patients with head and neck cancer, that is what Binanox, The 2022 iGEM Leiden team, want to achieve. They hope to r...
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Wood formation further explored by NWO-XL grant 07 September 2022
Leiden researchers, Professor Remko Offringa and co-applicants Salma Balazadeh and Frederic Lens received an NWO-XL grant (2.5 million euros). Togethe...
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How to involve citizens in your scientific research 06 September 2022
Inviting members of the public to help monitor wildlife, photograph plants or conduct samplings. These are some of the many examples of Citizen Scienc...