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The molecular secrets of medicinal cannabis23 March 2023Chronic pain, nausea or vomiting due to chemotherapy. If you suffer from such ailments, medicinal cannabis can be a godsend. Though a downside is that...
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Publication from the Barz Lab in Advanced Materials22 March 2023Complex Structures Made Simple - Continuous Flow Production of Core Cross-Linked Polymeric Micelles for Paclitaxel Pro-Drug-Delivery
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How oxygen deprivation causes cancer cells to spread03 March 2023In breast cancer, metastasis rather than the primary tumour is the cause of death. A lack of oxygen in the tumour cells promotes this metastasis, acco...
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Website full of interactive videos to improve your lab education27 February 2023To better prepare students for their laboratory education, a team of education experts and students have created a collection of interactive videos. A...
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Why you should publish negative data22 February 2023As a bachelor student of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences, Femke Vlaswinkel wrote a research proposal she was allowed to carry out in her master’s BPS. Fem...
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Joining hands to advance Dutch microscopy20 February 2023Advanced microscopy to understand life and fight disease: that’s the goal of the new NL-BioImaging network that will develop and integrate state-of-th...
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Why arteriosclerosis looks like an autoimmune disease30 January 2023Arteriosclerosis bears great similarities to autoimmune diseases. Researchers from Leiden University show this in a new study they published in the re...
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Cells with stress: predicting drug-induced liver and kidney damage26 January 2023How can we prevent drug-induced liver and kidney damage? PhD candidates Marije Niemeijer and Lukas Wijaya investigated what happens in the cells durin...
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Best presentation award for Andreea Nadaban at European congress03 January 2023
A starring role for PhD candidate Andreea Nadaban during the annual meeting of the European Epidermal Barrier Research Network. With her talk about th...
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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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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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Improving painkiller dosing in the clinic25 November 2022Children, 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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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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The Mindfulnest at the Science Faculty18 November 2022Are you in need of some rest, stressed about an exam, or feeling under the weather? Since a few months you can find Mindfulnest at the Science Faculty...
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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...