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A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy 25 November 2020
Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our moder...
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Leiden students win grand prize at iGEM international biology competition 23 November 2020
The Leiden iGEM team has won the grand prize at the iGEM international biology competition. The students won a further five prizes, including those fo...
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Blog post: The nose of this wormy-shaped bacterium has a surprising symmetry 13 November 2020
For the first time ever, Leiden biologists have found that the ‘nose’ of spirochetes – worm-shaped bacteria – have a two-fold symmetry. A remarkable d...
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Leiden alternative to plastic microparticles wins second prize in European student competition 09 November 2020
A team of students from Leiden and Groningen took the second prize at the European final of the BISC-E sustainability competition. Last June, the team...
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Veni grants for eleven Leiden researchers 05 November 2020
Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...
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Clever variant of antibiotic bypasses resistance in bacteria 30 October 2020
Biological chemist Nathaniel Martin is going to test an alternative antibiotic that can combat common resistant bacteria such as MRSA. For this purpos...
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MIGRADROME: new study on the impact of vessel sound pollution on fish behaviour 30 October 2020
Fishes rely heavily on sound to find their way during migration or dispersal. Many species are affected by noise pollution. Hans Slabbekoorn from the ...
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Fungi add flavour to vanilla 26 October 2020
Fungi living in vanilla plants play a role in the development of the taste and smell of vanilla, according to Shahnoo Khoyratty of the Institute of Bi...
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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research 23 October 2020
The origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...
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Correcting each other’s mistakes - why cells stuck together in early evolution 23 October 2020
The transition from single cells to multicellular organisms was a key step in evolution. Researchers from Leiden and Amsterdam developed a mathematica...
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First Dutch field trials with exotic insect to combat invasive plant 22 October 2020
For the first time in the Netherlands, an exotic insect species is released into the wild to combat a harmful plant species. The Japanese knotweed psy...
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Hiroshima Peace Tree comes to Blekerspark 24 September 2020
On 23 September, the Leiden alderman for the Management of Public Space was presented with a Ginkgo Biloba in the Blekerspark. This special 'Peace Tre...
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AI research in Zuid-Holland: three examples 24 September 2020
How designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in th...
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Women researchers shook up the world of bird song 15 September 2020
For a long time, bird song was considered as a typical male trait. But over the last twenty years, research has shown that a lot of female songbirds s...
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Cells ‘walk’ to firm ground 11 September 2020
A new mathematical model may explain how body cells get their shapes and what makes them move within a tissue. The model provides fundamental knowledg...