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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publicationThe leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The reason for this is t...
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Omid Karami wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation AwardPlant scientist Omid Karami is the first winner of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award. The jury praises the outstanding quality of his scien...
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Hans Slabbekoorn receives NWA grant to study fish around wind farms in the North SeaThe Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded behavioural biologist Hans Slabbekoorn (Institute of Biology Leiden) a grant of 750,000 euros to study fish a...
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Nele Mentens joins LIACS as Professor of Applied Cryptography & Data SecurityFinding solutions for economically and socially relevant problems in digital data security. That is what Nele Mentens, Professor of Applied Cryptograp...
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Finding the cause of memory lossMemory loss and confusion are signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Physicists Serge Rombouts and Martina Huber have developed new methods to help medical sci...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decisionLions limit their prey, such as zebra and gnu, in their options for adapting to global warming. This is what Leiden researcher Michiel Veldhuis, from ...
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The Hortus botanicus reopens on 1 JuneGreat news! From Whit Monday at noon, the oldest botanical garden in the Netherlands will be open for visitors again. After twelve weeks of closure, v...
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New professor of Biotherapeutics Delivery at LACDRMatthias Barz has been appointed full Professor of Biotherapeutics Delivery at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR).
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Here is how we can increase the effectiveness of global environment protectionResearchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) identified six top priorities where environmental interventions can make the most diffe...
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Probing the secret forces of pericytesLeiden researchers found a way to measure the tiny forces exerted by pericytes, one of the most elusive, hard to research cell types, which occur in t...
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Minute molecular movements might lead to more efficient biofuel cellsLeiden researchers have found minute movements in the laccase enzyme. This discovery could lead to the development of much more efficient biofuel cell...
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How these three students experience education from homeA lot has changed for students during the corona crisis: no physical education, exams behind the computer, and lecturers who accidentally mute themsel...
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In the media: Daniela Kraft in Academic Stories about nanoparticle robotsDaniela Kraft speaks to Academic Stories about self-assembling soft matter, nanorobots, the importance of female rodels in science, and the unique fre...
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Careful restart Cell Observatory and labsWith the necessary measures, researchers restart their work in various laboratories. The Leiden Cell Observatory is one of the places where scientists...
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Shell works with Leiden and VU researchers on quantum computer algorithms for chemistryShell cooperates with theoretical physicists and chemists of Leiden University to research how quantum computer algorithms can help simulate complex m...