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New zebrafish study to understand human cancer 06 October 2012Ewa Snaar-Jagalska, Shuning He and colleagues from IBL, LION and LACDR reported on a new zebrafish study to understand micrometastasis of human cancer...
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Wouter Halfwerk receives a Rubicon grant 16 January 2012Behavioural biologist Wouter Halfwerk has been awarded a 2-year outgoing Rubicon-grant from NWO. He will be working at the Smithsonian Tropical Resear...
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New funding for the development of a metabolomics resistance test at the IBL 14 February 2011Researchers from the Plant Ecology and Phytochemistry group at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) received an STW (Stichting Technologische Wetensc...
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White blood cells in transparent embryos 06 May 2010Leiden molecular cell biologists in the research group of Annemarie Meijer have discovered novel early macrophage-specific genes in zebrafish, includi...
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Leiden Professor Cees van den Hondel appointed ‘Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’ 06 April 2010Cees van den Hondel, IBL-professor and 2010 Programme director of the Fungus programme of the Kluyver Centre received the royal distinction "'Officier...
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Popular lake balls under threat 11 March 2010Algae are not what immediately spring to mind when people think of threatened species. But even among algae there are species that have a difficult ti...
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Aphid genome unravelled 23 February 2010Leiden evolutionary biologist Maurijn van der Zee has co-operated on an enormous international project to describe the genetic material of the pea aph...
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Urbanisation forces blackbirds to evolve 15 December 2009For some time blackbirds have been settling in towns as well as in woods. As a result, town blackbirds have now begun to develop differently from thei...
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Major European subsidy for Leiden evolutionary biology 08 December 2009Paul Brakefield, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Institute of Biology in Leiden (IBL) has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research...
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Zebra finches discriminate wit from wet 04 December 2009Can Zebra finches learn to distinguish two very similar Dutch words? Research by behavioral biologist Verena Ohms proved that they can identify 'wit' ...
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Songbird passes grammar test using mnemonics 17 November 2009Songbirds apparently use mnemonics rather than more complex grammatical rules to recognise structures in which they have been trained. Leiden behaviou...
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Bacteria evolve gambling behaviour 04 November 2009In an unpredictable environment bacteria evolve the same strategy as shareholders who try to protect themselves against unpredictable swings in the st...
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The evolutionary added value of sex 03 November 2009Asexual procreation in female wasps leads to an accumulation of genetic mutations, and the shrivelling of their sex organ. Leiden biologist Ken Kraaij...
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Poisonous colours increase chances of sexual success 27 October 2009Warning colours ensure that predators remember that certain prey are poisonous. But now it appears that the colours of poisonous Panamanian frogs are ...
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Low-quality females prefer low-quality males 13 October 2009Marie-Jeanne Holveck and Katharina Riebel from Behavioural Biology at the Institute of Biology at the Faculty of Science published their research in P...