News
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Flower bulbs to treat Alzheimer's 23 June 2020
The substance galanthamine from flower bulbs can fight symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Nadeem Akram investigated how daffodils can optimally produce ...
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Leiden spin-off In Ovo awarded 2.5 million grant 10 June 2020
Leiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has received a European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot Grant. In Ovo will use th...
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Annemarie Meijer new training coordinator in European network 09 June 2020
The new project INFLANET will train young scientists in Europe to become experts in inflammation research. Professor Annemarie Meijer from the Institu...
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Omid Karami wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award 05 June 2020
Plant scientist Omid Karami is the first winner of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award. The jury praises the outstanding quality of his scien...
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Hans Slabbekoorn receives NWA grant to study fish around wind farms in the North Sea 04 June 2020
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded behavioural biologist Hans Slabbekoorn (Institute of Biology Leiden) a grant of 750,000 euros to study fish a...
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Careful restart Cell Observatory and labs 26 May 2020
With the necessary measures, researchers restart their work in various laboratories. The Leiden Cell Observatory is one of the places where scientists...
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‘Unimportant’ plant gene turns out to be essential 12 May 2020
Leiden biologists have shown that a gene present in plants, animals and yeasts does play an important role in plants, although for years the gene was ...
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Beetle can limit hay fever 08 May 2020
Leiden biologist Suzanne Lommen and an international team of scientists have investigated how a beetle can reduce hay fever in Europe. Locally, the be...
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Leiden graduate starts petition for visa extension because of Covid-19 07 May 2020
Yuven Muniandy (36) from Malaysia recently obtained a PhD from Leiden University. His ‘orientation year’ visa gives him a year to find work in the Net...
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Marnix Medema new visiting professor Van der Klaauw chair 01 May 2020
The Institute of Biology Leiden has a new visiting professor as of the first of May. Bioinformatician Marnix Medema holds the Van der Klaauw chair for...
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Evolution of bacterial movement revealed 28 April 2020
An international team with researchers from Leiden revealed how a bacterium repurposed an internal system to control its movements. Movement control i...
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Leiden iGEM team wants to build a kit to diagnose infectious diseases 24 April 2020
Fourteen bachelor’s and master’s students are representing Leiden University in this year’s International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (...
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Longevity gene discovered in plants 14 April 2020
Harvesting rice from the same field, without planting new rice plants? A discovery may bring this scenario closer. Leiden scientists have discovered a...
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‘Sometimes it helps to take some time to think’ 09 April 2020
He started his career as a part-time PhD candidate and a reading volunteer at his children's school. Now, as a professor, he looks back on forty years...
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Arthur Ram receives NWO grant to improve enzyme factory 06 April 2020
This year, microbiologist Arthur Ram will start new research on producing useful enzymes in bulk. Ram receives an NWO grant for this project that will...