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Bacteria inside plant roots battle fungal diseaseTwo bacterial species team up inside the plant root system to rescue their host from fungal infection. This was discovered by a team of microbiologist...
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactiveNanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmenta...
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Ten thousand types of plant outgrowths bundledFor nine years he worked on the three-volume standard work Plant Galls of Europe. It yielded 2300 pages about 10,000 species of European galls, abnorm...
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Luis Salome Abarca about plant chemicals and the Hortus botanicusWhat chemicals do plants have available, and what happens if they use them when faced with bacteria or fungi? That is what PhD candidate Luis Salomé A...
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Record sum Leiden Science Run for refugee scholarsThe Leiden Science Run 2019 has raised a record sum of 12,135 euros for refugee student foundation UAF. No less than 101 teams – also a record – and t...
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Ben Wielstra about newts, bizarre evolution and NaturalisNewts of which half of the offspring die before birth. Evolutionary biologist Ben Wielstra is investigating how this can exist in nature. In his resea...
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Pharmacologist Rob van Wijk is highlighted author of the monthPharmacologist Rob van Wijk is the Highlighted Trainee Author in the upcoming October issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeuti...
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Michiel Kreutzer new Dean of the Faculty of ScienceProfessor Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. He will take up the role on 1 January 2020. At p...
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Attacking tuberculosis bacteria: an interview with Mónica VarelaThis summer postdoctoral researcher Mónica Varela from the Institute of Biology Leiden was awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)....
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New management structure for nanoscopy centre NeCENA new executive board has been installed at NeCEN, a state-of-the art facility that offers the most advanced cryo-electron microscopes worldwide. The ...
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Deadly infections on the increase: urgent need for new antibioticsGlobally, the number of deaths from infections is on the rise as more bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. New classes are desperately needed. A ...
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Scientists of the Faculty of Science enlighten you during the Afternoon and Night of DiscoveriesLight and dark, that is the theme of the Night of Discoveries. The yearly event will take place from Saturday 21 September to Sunday 22 September 2019...
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Dutch youth unfamiliar with native animal speciesFor the first time research has been done on species literacy in the Netherlands. Children in primary schools know about 1 in 3 native animal species....
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Dialogue, collaboration and quantum: opening academic year Faculty of ScienceWith a call for dialogue and collaboration, vice dean Bart de Smit kicked off the new academic year for the Faculty of Science on Tuesday 3 September....
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Gravitation Grant: more than twenty million for sustainable cropsThe project MiCRop receives 20.3 million euros from the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). MiCRop will unravel the microbial c...