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Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research 18 February 2021
Four green research institutes in Leiden are joining forces to integrate evolution and biodiversity research, at local and at the national level. Pivo...
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Fungi add flavour to vanilla 26 October 2020
Fungi living in vanilla plants play a role in the development of the taste and smell of vanilla, according to Shahnoo Khoyratty of the Institute of Bi...
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First Dutch field trials with exotic insect to combat invasive plant 22 October 2020
For the first time in the Netherlands, an exotic insect species is released into the wild to combat a harmful plant species. The Japanese knotweed psy...
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Computers help wood anatomists with wood identification 07 September 2020
The most commonly used method for the taxonomic identification of tree trunks is wood anatomy. The number of experts in this area is decreasing, and e...
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Omid Karami receives the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award during festive ceremony 27 August 2020
In a festive and intimate award ceremony, plant scientist Omid Karami received the first edition of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award out o...
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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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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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‘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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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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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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‘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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Student hauls in NWO grant for research into 'rejuvenating gene' 16 December 2019
Master's student Thalia Luden receives an NWO grant for her research proposal about a gene that brings flowering plants back into a growth phase. Comp...
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Biology student wins Young Talent graduation prize for Plant Sciences 26 November 2019
Recently graduated Biology student Julia López Delgado is one of the winners of the Holland Society Young Talent Awards 2019. She received her prize d...