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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...
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Digital dissection and remote microscopy lessons 03 April 2020
Due to the corona crisis, they had to switch to online education halfway during their course: associate professor Marcel Schaaf and PhD candidate Mich...
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Mathematical model helps to explain the formation of spine and ribs 23 March 2020
Mathematical biologists from Leiden have developed a model that helps to explain how the spine and vertebrae, among other things, form during embryoni...
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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career 03 March 2020
Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experience...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists 24 February 2020
Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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Leiden biology appreciated with large NWO grants 24 February 2020
A Vici grant and a Science-GROOT: scientists from the Institute of Biology Leiden have been awarded prestigious grants from the Dutch Research Council...
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Four Leiden professors appointed to KHMW 20 February 2020
Four Leiden University professors have been appointed to The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Andrea Evers, Erwin Muller, Sjaak Neefj...
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From stress to success: Vici grant for Dennis Claessen 20 February 2020
Why do some bacteria lose their protective cell wall under the influence of stress? Microbiologist Dennis Claessen of the Institute of Biology Leiden ...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers 20 February 2020
Three Leiden researchers will each receive a Vici grant of 1.5m euros. They are historian Cátia Antunes, cell biologist Dennis Claessen and archaeolog...
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‘Don’t ever discriminate yourself by any gender-related label’ 11 February 2020
Iranian molecular plant biologist Salma Balazadeh started her career in Germany. Now she sets up a research group in Leiden to study stress in plants ...
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Snake venom glands grown in lab 23 January 2020
For the first time, researchers were able to grow organoids from snake venom glands. The lab-grown 3-D structures can produce snake venom molecules. T...
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Lisa Bruil receives Kees Bakker Award 22 January 2020
On 16 January student Lisa Bruil from the Institute of Biology Leiden was awarded the annual prize from the Stichting Prof. dr. K. Bakker-Fonds for he...