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Halting protein degradation may contribute to new cancer treatment30 May 2016Chemist Gerjan de Bruin has designed a method of slowing down the degradation process of proteins in cells. This may contribute to new cancer medicine...
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Breakthrough by Leiden researchers in Pompe disease02 May 2016Researchers at Leiden University have made a breakthrough in the study of the hereditary Pompe disease. Together with colleagues in York, they have de...
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Fruit, flowers and vegetables can be kept longer using new sensor02 May 2016As fruit and vegetables ripen, ethylene gas is released. Ethylene also influences the speed at which they ripen. Chemist Tom van Dijkman studied how ...
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Students colonise Mars with E. coli bacteria21 April 2016Using E. coli bacteria to convert a toxic compound in the soil on Mars into oxygen to make life on the planet possible. A team of thirteen Leiden stud...
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Why fundamental science matters21 March 2016Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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Two NWO ECHO grants for Leiden Chemistry28 January 2016Two excellent young chemists, Jeroen Codée and Sander van Kasteren, have received an ECHO grant for €260,000 from the Netherlands Organisation for Sci...
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Research Grant for tuning into photosynthesis08 January 2016Biophysicist Anjali Pandit has been awarded a FOM 'Projectruimte' research grant for her proposal ‘Tuning into the photosynthetic membrane with atomis...
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New substances inhibit inflammation in the brain07 January 2016Chemical biologists from Leiden, led by Dr Mario van der Stelt, have discovered substances that can reduce inflammation processes in the brain. This i...
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Discoverer of the Year, Best Dissertation and Education prize 201505 January 2016During the Faculty of Science New Year's reception, Daniël Rozen was named Discoverer of the year 2015. Nienke van der Marel and Koen van der Maaden b...
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Book: The Colours of Energy16 December 2015Huub de Groot is one of the 55 authors for the book The Colours of Energy. The book consists of Essays on the Future of Energy in Society in which lea...
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Designing better catalysts using simple chemical concepts08 October 2015An international team of researchers, including Federico Calle-Vallejo of Leiden University’s Institute of Chemistry, have taken the atomic-scale desi...
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Dick Stufkens Prijs 2015 awarded to chemist Tatu Kumpulainen05 October 2015The Dick Stufkens Prijs for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has been awarded to Dr Tatu S. Kumpulain...
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Cost-effective catalyst converts CO2 into natural gas02 September 2015A discovery made in Leiden helps not only to make natural gas from CO2 but also to store renewable energy. Research by Professor Marc Koper and PhD st...
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Fat-free mayonnaise thanks to manipulation of surface tension11 August 2015
Aqueous solutions of proteins and carbohydrates separate into two parts with an extremely ‘soft’ boundary surface. The surface tension between these t...
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Research shows protein movement is important20 July 2015
Researchers led by Professor of Chemistry Marcellus Ubbink have recently published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) a...