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Flower bulbs to treat Alzheimer'sThe substance galanthamine from flower bulbs can fight symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Nadeem Akram investigated how daffodils can optimally produce ...
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Leiden spin-off In Ovo awarded 2.5 million grantLeiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has received a European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot Grant. In Ovo will use th...
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Annemarie Meijer new training coordinator in European networkThe new project INFLANET will train young scientists in Europe to become experts in inflammation research. Professor Annemarie Meijer from the Institu...
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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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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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‘Unimportant’ plant gene turns out to be essentialLeiden biologists have shown that a gene present in plants, animals and yeasts does play an important role in plants, although for years the gene was ...
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Beetle can limit hay feverLeiden biologist Suzanne Lommen and an international team of scientists have investigated how a beetle can reduce hay fever in Europe. Locally, the be...
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Leiden graduate starts petition for visa extension because of Covid-19Yuven Muniandy (36) from Malaysia recently obtained a PhD from Leiden University. His ‘orientation year’ visa gives him a year to find work in the Net...
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Marnix Medema new visiting professor Van der Klaauw chairThe Institute of Biology Leiden has a new visiting professor as of the first of May. Bioinformatician Marnix Medema holds the Van der Klaauw chair for...
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Evolution of bacterial movement revealed
An international team with researchers from Leiden revealed how a bacterium repurposed an internal system to control its movements. Movement control i...
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Leiden iGEM team wants to build a kit to diagnose infectious diseasesFourteen bachelor’s and master’s students are representing Leiden University in this year’s International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (...
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National and international media attention for longevity geneA publication in Nature Plants by a team of Leiden biologists has received national and international media attention. The researchers can have annual...
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Longevity gene discovered in plantsHarvesting rice from the same field, without planting new rice plants? A discovery may bring this scenario closer. Leiden scientists have discovered a...
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‘Sometimes it helps to take some time to think’He started his career as a part-time PhD candidate and a reading volunteer at his children's school. Now, as a professor, he looks back on forty years...