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BRAIN appoints University of Leiden as partner for BEC-Enabled production strain development 02 September 2021
BRAIN Biotech and the Leiden University will jointly develop an Aspergillus based production strain with high yield and thus contribute to a bio-based...
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Leiden students brew coasters from beer waste 01 July 2021
Turning beer waste into a useful, sustainable product. That was the mission of students from Leiden at the international BISC-E event. The biology stu...
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Mission successful: deposits on small plastic bottles 29 June 2021
After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders ...
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours 23 June 2021
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieli...
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Alumnus Robert Ietswaart: ‘Machine learning is revolutionising drug discovery’ 15 June 2021
Robert Ietswaart does research into gene regulation at the famous Harvard Medical School in Boston. He developed an algorithm to better predict whethe...
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Microbes protect crops from microbes 03 June 2021
Farmers do not love them all. Microbes can cause tragic consequences for crops. Even the presence of just one pathogenic fungus or bacterium can drast...
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook 31 May 2021
With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing tha...
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Producing new plants without sowing 10 May 2021
Producing offspring of a crop without sowing and that is even bigger than the parent plant. According to Leiden researchers this can be achieved by ov...
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’ 07 May 2021
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth compan...
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Disrupted movement makes macrophages more lethal to tuberculosis bacteria 14 April 2021
Macrophages – the front line of our immune system – protect us from infections. But in the case of the tuberculosis bacteria, this often goes wrong. T...
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Sea sponges may seem like simple creatures, but… 12 April 2021
One of them turned out to be two thousand years old. And older giant barrel sponges appear to have a faster rate of cell division, unlike us. They pro...
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Which DNA is floating in the ditch? 08 April 2021
You pour a scoop of ditch water in the DNA scanner, and voilà: you know exactly which plants and animals the ditch accommodates. Well, it is not that ...
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Free online course teaches you all about imaging 30 March 2021
How do you microscopically image zebrafish larvae? The new free online course ‘Imaging the Vertebrate embryo’ teaches you all about it. Leiden PhD can...
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Corona waste kills animals throughout the entire world 24 March 2021
Face masks and gloves designed to protect us are, in fact, dangerous for the animals around us. Scientists from Leiden warn that throughout the world,...
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Researchers discover hitchhiking bacteria 23 March 2021
Imagine that you need to travel, but you don’t have a car and you’re dead broke. What do you do? Hitchhiking, of course! Leiden biologists found that ...