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Cleaning up tuberculosis and salmonella infections 04 March 2019
The cellular recycling system in zebrafish is capable of eating harmful bacteria and thus resist infections such as tuberculosis and salmonellosis. Th...
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New antibiotic named after Leiden 01 March 2019
Increasing resistance and a lack of new antibiotics are a serious problem for public health. Against this background, Gilles van Wezel of the Institut...
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FameLab: young scientists take the stage 26 February 2019
In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The...
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Dancing for science: Annebelle Kok finalist of Dance Your PhD 26 February 2019
Explaining your PhD research to others can be quite difficult, especially without talking! PhD student Annebelle Kok of the Institute of Biology Leide...
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Untangling the Evolution of a Balanced Lethal System 22 February 2019
Ben Wielstra strives to unravel the evolution of balanced lethal systems. On 1 February he started his own lab at the Institute of Biology Leiden. Wie...
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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’ 08 February 2019
His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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What South Park tells us about Charles Darwin 04 February 2019
Just about everything that's known about Charles Darwin has already been said or written. Even so, Norbert Peeters – together with Tessa van Dijk – ha...
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Proactive personality has stronger wake-sleep rhythm 24 January 2019
Proactive zebrafish appear to have a much stronger wake-sleep rhythm than reactive fish. In the most reactive fish, rhythmicity appears to be lacking ...
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Female budgerigars like smart males 10 January 2019
If male budgerigars can successfully open a puzzle box with food, they become more attractive to females. Biologist Carel ten Cate and Chinese colleag...
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Amy Montanje receives the 'Kees Bakker Award' 07 January 2019
Leiden Biology student Amy Montanje received the annual award for being the best BSc-student in 2018 from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakker-fonds”.
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CanalCups: getting to plastic-free canals 18 December 2018
Two weeks after 3 October the Leiden canals were still full of plastic disposable cups. Auke-Florian Hiemstra and fellow students have fished thousand...
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How cholera bacteria make people so sick 14 December 2018
The enormous adaptability of the cholera bacterium explains why it is able to claim so many victims. Professor Ariane Briegel from the Leiden Institu...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 2018 13 December 2018
Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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30 years and Professor: the story of Changsheng Wu 11 December 2018
The death of his grandfather in 1988 motivates Changsheng Wu to become a scientist. In 2016, he is awarded the C.J. Kok Jury Award for his thesis on n...
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Interview with PhD student: Doris van Bergeijk 11 December 2018
Leiden University is partner of the Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH). This initiative brings together leading academic research institutes in ...