News
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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 ...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Life after the Grand Jamboree: Wrapping-up iGEM10 November 2022‘A challenging rollercoaster, but also a very bonding and insightful experience,’ that’s how the team of iGEM Leiden 2022 wraps up their participation...
-
3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’04 October 2022‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3...