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Which DNA is floating in the ditch?08 April 2021You pour a scoop of ditch water in the DNA scanner, and voilà: you know exactly which plants and animals the ditch accommodates. Well, it is not that ...
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Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research18 February 2021Four 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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Hybrid zones: a quick guide by Ben Wielstra11 February 2021Ben Wielstra studies hybrid zones, regions in which distinct populations of organisms meet, mate and produce genetically admixed offspring. In the jou...
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Noise pollution affects marine life worldwide05 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 biodiversity17 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 behaviour30 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 farms18 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 song15 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 Foundation28 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 Wielstra07 July 2020
Ben 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 Sea04 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 essential12 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 revealed28 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 plants14 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 lab23 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...