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Noise pollution affects marine life worldwide 05 February 2021Man-made sounds in and around the oceans stress marine life and have an impact on marine species and ecosystems by changing the underwater acoustic cl...
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IBL coordinates project to search for new medicines in marine biodiversity 17 December 2020Gilles van Wezel of the Institute of Biology Leiden will lead a European consortium to search for new medicines and disease-suppressive microbes while...
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MIGRADROME: new study on the impact of vessel sound pollution on fish behaviour 30 October 2020Fishes rely heavily on sound to find their way during migration or dispersal. Many species are affected by noise pollution. Hans Slabbekoorn from the ...
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Difference in microbiota between organic and conventional dairy farms 18 September 2020Bacteria and fungi on organic dairy farms are significantly different from those on conventional farms. That was discovered by postdoc researcher Sofi...
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Women researchers shook up the world of bird song 15 September 2020For a long time, bird song was considered as a typical male trait. But over the last twenty years, research has shown that a lot of female songbirds s...
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Briegel winner in global competition by the Moore Foundation 28 July 2020Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural biology in Leiden, has received a prestigious incentive from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. With ...
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Balanced lethal systems: a quick guide by Ben Wielstra 07 July 2020Ben Wielstra studies balanced lethal systems, in which half of the offspring die before birth. In the journal Current Biology, he explains in an acces...
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Hans Slabbekoorn receives NWA grant to study fish around wind farms in the North Sea 04 June 2020The 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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‘Unimportant’ plant gene turns out to be essential 12 May 2020Leiden 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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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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Longevity gene discovered in plants 14 April 2020Harvesting 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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Snake venom glands grown in lab 23 January 2020For 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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Altruism in bacteria: colonies divide the work 16 January 2020Bacteria found in soil specialise in the colony by division of labour. Some of the bacteria produce antibiotics, even when it comes at the expense of ...
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Student hauls in NWO grant for research into 'rejuvenating gene' 16 December 2019Master'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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These animal species are dear to us, but can we protect them? 11 October 2019Animal species that are dear to us in the Netherlands often spend a large part or all of their lifecycle in other parts of the world. But their habita...