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Interview with PhD student: Doris van Bergeijk11 December 2018Leiden University is partner of the Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH). This initiative brings together leading academic research institutes in ...
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Bacteria under stress can live without cell wall04 December 2018Thread-like bacteria make cells that no longer have a cell wall under the influence of osmotic stress. A remarkable discovery, since the cell wall ser...
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Janneke Fruin-Helb Scholarship for student Tim Rietbergen19 November 2018Tim Rietbergen, master student Evolutionary Biology at Leiden University, won the award for the best Leiden University Fund (LUF) grant application of...
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Decomposing tears in order to detect Dry Eye Disease31 August 2018By measuring proteins in tears, ophthalmologists can more easily diagnose dry eyes (Dry Eye Disease). Peter Raus, a Belgian ophthalmologist and PhD st...
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Students hunting for breakthrough in antibiotics resistance14 August 2018Bacteria that fluoresce green, blue or red may play a role in combatting resistance against antibiotics. Under the motto of 'Say yes to stress', thir...
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The underwater Hobbit – a new shrimp species08 June 2018‘In a hole under water there lived a hobbit’: a new species of shrimp named after Bilbo Baggings. Biology student Werner de Gier described this newly ...
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Using fungi to produce renewable energy05 June 2018Ebru Alazi ‘hacked’ an enzyme-producing system in the fungus Aspergillus niger in order to produce renewable energy more easily. She manipulated the f...
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Fifty Shades of Stress15 May 2018The challenge: Building a tool to detect chemical compounds that individually cause non-lethal stress to bacteria, but that are lethal in combination....
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Nathaniel Martin new IBL professor in Bioorganic Chemistry14 May 2018Nathaniel Martin has been appointed professor in the field of Bioorganic Chemistry within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Biology Leiden, s...
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Martienke Baaij receives the “Kees Bakker Award”26 April 2018Leiden Biology student Martienke Baaij received the annual award for being the best BSc-student in 2017 from the “Stichting Professor Dr. K. Bakker-fo...
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17 mln subsidy to develop electron microscopy in the Netherlands13 April 2018The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has made a subsidy of 17 million euros available to further develop a Netherlands network f...
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Smallest-ever Leiden University logo21 February 2018The logo of Leiden University, with letters as small as a bacterium. Researchers from LUMC and the Institute of Biology have created the smallest logo...
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Science and business working together on affordable alternatives for antibiotics19 December 2017Almost fifty scientists and twenty companies will be working on developing new antibiotics and alternatives for antibiotics use. NWO and the Ministry ...
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Launching event National Antibiotic Development Platform20 April 2017Antibiotic resistance is one of the major threats to human health. This week the National Antibiotic Development Platform, NADP, was officially launch...
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A clear picture of bacteria10 January 2017
Freezing bacteria super fast to gain a true-to-nature image of the internal and external structure. Ariane Briegel Professor of Ultrastructural Biolog...