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When does resistance to toxins evolve in animals? Students publish major review 23 May 2022
Does a snake die when it bites its lip? Why will a mongoose survive a scorpion’s sting, but we humans perish? These questions occupied the minds of to...
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How Oncode-PACT is bringing new cancer medicines closer with 325 million in Growth Fund money 18 May 2022
How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes ...
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Many animals, but little biodiversity in children’s picture books 09 May 2022
Dutch children’s picture books are full of animals, but mainly mammals are portrayed. Especially pets and exotic animals are popular. A large part of ...
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Researchers tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria 06 May 2022
When a bacterium becomes more resistant to one antibiotic, it sometimes becomes more sensitive to another. To better understand this interaction, rese...
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ERC Advanced Grants for four Leiden researchers 26 April 2022
From a new generation of antibiotics and more-effective vaccines to a map of dark matter and new light on Hindu traditions. Four researchers from Leid...
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Combating antibiotic resistance together 24 March 2022
Antibiotic resistance is a common problem among patients. The European Project TIPAT trains pharmacologists, microbiologists and immunologists of six ...
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Leiden researchers join forces against tuberculosis 24 March 2022
About one and a half million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis. For thirty years, therapy with antibiotics has been the same, while it ...
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Cities have a direct influence on evolution 18 March 2022
A global biological study has provided the most direct evidence to date that humans, and specifically cities, are the drivers of evolutionary change o...
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Is it possible to avoid dehydration? Gene promotes wood formation 16 March 2022
‘It was a discovery we did not expect,’ says Remko Offringa, professor of Plant developmental genetics. Today he publishes a new trait of a versatile ...
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Women’s Day for Biology students 09 March 2022
‘It was not always accepted, but I just wanted to be a researcher. Now, I am as happy as can be.’ It is one of the quotes from the International Women...
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Marcel Schaaf: 'Lecturers need to come off their islands' 09 March 2022
Biologist Marcel Schaaf is one of four science faculty members who achieved the Senior Teaching Qualification in Leiden last year. How was that and wh...
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No venom resistance in snake-eating birds: ‘They just don’t need it’ 14 February 2022
To eat or get eaten. It describes the evolutionary race of snakes versus the mammals and birds that prey on these snakes. Muzaffar Ali Khan devoted hi...
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Innovative Leiden research receives NWO grant 08 February 2022
On January 24 Professor Annemarie Meijer and Dr Sander Wezenberg received a NWO grant for their research. The grant was awarded within the Open Compet...
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Combining research and a good cause: Tutoring programme concludes successfully 18 January 2022
More than a course. That was the aim of the Leiden Tutoring programme. Through weekly tutoring lessons, students did not just earn five EC. They helpe...
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Dangerous microbes in lower level safety lab? A new technique could make it possible 18 January 2022
Researchers need to work in specialized environments when they work with dangerous bacteria and viruses. These microbes spread easily, so only in labs...