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Students on expedition to Borneo 11 April 2018
Every two years, students from Leiden University go into the Malaysian rainforests of Borneo. There they speak with Malaysian people to discover the u...
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Dutch creative with food during World War II 27 March 2018
During the Dutch famine of 1944–45, people were much more creative in finding food than we thought. Biology student Tom Vorstenbosch discovered that p...
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What plant genes can teach us 15 March 2018
Just like us, plants also produce growth hormones, and they also go through an ageing process. The study of the genes and mechanisms behind these proc...
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Female talent in the spotlight 07 March 2018
The representation of women in science is improving, also at the Faculty of Science. On 8 March – International Women's Day – we highlight the work of...
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Smallest-ever Leiden University logo 21 February 2018
The logo of Leiden University, with letters as small as a bacterium. Researchers from LUMC and the Institute of Biology have created the smallest logo...
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Good-natured twins on the secret jungles in the city 17 January 2018
In Dutch TV programme Early Birds, Marvin and Kevin Groen (26) showed viewers areas of nature in the city that often go unnoticed. These good-natured...
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'Biologists also need to be a bit of a data analyst’ 16 January 2018
Biologists today have to be able to work with big data. Data analysis skills should be taught from the start of the degree programme, or - even better...
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Magnifying the minute 11 January 2018
Making all those things we normally cannot see visible is the challenge that fascinates Fons Verbeek, Leiden's new Professor of Computational Bio-Imag...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 2017 09 January 2018
With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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Exaggeration in medical news starts with the press release 02 January 2018
Medical research is often exaggerated in the news. Medical journalists are not the only ones guilty of such sloppiness; results are also often exagger...
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Science and business working together on affordable alternatives for antibiotics 19 December 2017
Almost fifty scientists and twenty companies will be working on developing new antibiotics and alternatives for antibiotics use. NWO and the Ministry ...
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Grzegorz Rozenberg appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion 14 December 2017
Prof.dr. Rozenberg, emeritus professor in Theoretical Computer Science at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), received a royal ...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017
Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...
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Even plants can have neighbour trouble 12 December 2017
Restoring a natural plant environment on exhausted agricultural lands and in nature areas is difficult. We can speed this up by steering the soils to...
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Specialised plants may not be as vulnerable as was thought 12 December 2017
Plants that are pollinated by fewer species of animal may be less vulnerable to change than was thought. This is what Saskia Klumpers discovered in th...