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Niko Tinbergen lecture 2019: Stem cells, mini organs and eternal life 13 December 2019
Three speakers, three fascinating science stories and a well-filled lecture hall. The Niko Tinbergen Lecture had a successful restart on 10 December 2...
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The most popular articles of 2019 09 December 2019
From children’s inability to identify animals to a big protest at the opening of the academic year: below are some of our most popular articles of 2019.
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The Cell Observatory just got upgraded, and here is why 06 December 2019
The European Commission has officially established Euro-BioImaging – which provides life scientists with open access to a broad range of technologies ...
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Biology student wins Young Talent graduation prize for Plant Sciences 26 November 2019
Recently graduated Biology student Julia López Delgado is one of the winners of the Holland Society Young Talent Awards 2019. She received her prize d...
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The promises and the dark side of stem cells 21 November 2019
Geneticist Hans Clevers will give the first Niko Tinbergen lecture new style on 10 December, which is all about stem cells. The young Leiden professor...
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17 Leiden researchers on highly cited list 20 November 2019
Seventeen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 19 November by Clarivate Analytics.
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How mammoth poop contributes to antibiotics research 18 November 2019
PhD student Doris van Bergeijk brought 40,000-year-old bacteria from mammoth poop back to life. She hopes to find new information that can help resear...
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NWO awards curiosity-driven research Ariane Briegel with grant 14 November 2019
Professor of Ultrastructural Biology Ariane Briegel has received a grant in the NWO Open Competition Domain Science in the XS category. This grant emp...
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Leiden iGEM students win prize with squid protein 12 November 2019
The Leiden students who participated in the iGEM synthetic biology competition have won the prize for best production. They developed a way to have ba...
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Bacteria inside plant roots battle fungal disease 01 November 2019
Two 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 hyperactive 24 October 2019
Nanoplastics 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 bundled 08 October 2019
For 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 botanicus 02 October 2019
What 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 scholars 01 October 2019
The 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 Naturalis 30 September 2019
Newts of which half of the offspring die before birth. Evolutionary biologist Ben Wielstra is investigating how this can exist in nature. In his resea...