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Cells ‘walk’ to firm groundA new mathematical model may explain how body cells get their shapes and what makes them move within a tissue. The model provides fundamental knowledg...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely settingFrom a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Leiden scientists develop topological barcodes for folded moleculesThe team of Alireza Mashaghi at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research has found a way to determine and classify the shape of proteins. Their ne...
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A mathematical shoe-tying awardKnots come in all shapes and sizes: mariners and scouts can vouch for this. Sjabbo Schaveling will obtain his PhD on 1 September for a mathematical me...
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New scanning method turns objects inside out at high speedWhat if you could watch a CT scan live, instead of analysing the images afterwards? If it is up to the Leiden mathematician Jan-Willem Buurlage, that ...
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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publicationThe leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The reason for this is t...
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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by EscherTwenty years onwards, in a review of an Escher exhibition in Italy, Nature Physics writes about it again: Leiden mathematicians helping Escher out. A ...
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NETWORKS consortium receives COFUND grant from European CommissionThe Gravitation programme NETWORKS has been awarded a COFUND grant of 3 million euros. Half of this comes from the European Commission's Marie Skłodow...
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Hardly an audience and a remote committee: receiving a PhD in times of coronaAlmost all PhD defences at Leiden University have been postponed due to the corona virus, but statistician Sanne Willems is going through with hers. I...
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Leiden statisticians create app for patients and doctors to calculate cancer survival probabilitiesA new app is able to calculate personalised survival probabilities for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. Doctors and patients can use the a...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientistsLeiden 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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Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020German mathematician Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020 at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden. He held the Kloosterman Lecture on 6 Fe...
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Dynamic personalised sarcoma care: implementation of a mathematical prediction app in the clinicA new app provides dynamic predictions of survival for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. It was developed by the mathematical Institute res...
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Measuring sulfur with satellitesSeagoing vessels may emit fewer and fewer harmful substances, but how do you measure whether they comply with the standards? The Dutch Environment and...
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Jacqueline Meulman receives the 2020 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime AchievementRecognition for an unprecedented career of more than forty years: Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman of the Mathematical Institute rec...