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Inaugural Lecture Professor Herman van VlijmenProf.Dr. Herman van Vlijmen was appointed as Professor of Computational Drug Discovery at the Division of Medicinal Chemistry in Leiden on April 15th,...
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Hendrik Lenstra honored Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse LeeuwOn Friday April 24th, after a day of festivities in honor of his 60th birthday, Hendrik Lenstra was awarded the distinction of `Ridder in de Orde van ...
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A week immersed in solar biofuelsThe Honours Class From Solar to Fuel with Bio consisted almost entirely of the workshop on Solar Biofuels from Micro-organisms that drew more than eig...
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New in Leiden: Computer science and economicsIn a survey held last year by the publication Elsevier, Leiden's Computer Science programme was voted by students as the best university programme of ...
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DNA folded in compliant helixIn an Advance Online Publication biophysicist John van Noort and others show using magnetic tweezers that DNA is folded in compliant helices of chroma...
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Planet formation: food for thoughtPlanet formation is a surprisingly homogeneous process that does not take place gradually from inside out, but that occurs everywhere at the same time...
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New research centre for studying planet and star formationThe ALMA Local Expertise Group (Allegro) is located in the Leiden Observatory (Sterrewacht). Professor Ewine van Dishoeck: ‘The Netherlands has played...
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Millions of people to help with new synthetic skin creamA team of researchers has managed to recreate the most natural skin cream in existence. Using the DUBBLE beamline (Dutch Belgian Beamline) at the Euro...
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Graphene is a thoroughbred that has to be tamedElectrons in graphene behave like light particles; they have no mass and can penetrate everything: very useful if you dream about nano-electronics. Bu...
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Leiden PhD researcher wins NASA Hubble FellowshipLeiden PhD researcher Karin Öberg is one of the 17 winners of the NASA Hubble Fellowship. When she has obtained her PhD this autumn she will move to t...
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PhD applications no longer processed by International OfficeAs of 1 February 2009, PhD applications should no longer be sent to the International Office to be processed. The Graduate School will deal with its o...
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Ewine van Dishoeck shows us new worlds in Dies lectureHer specialist field is molecular astrophysics, and she is the most quoted scholar in her field. In this, the year of astronomy, she is the ideal per...
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MicroRNA: so small but so very importantThe discovery in 2001 of the importance of microRNAs turned the world of molecular biology upside down. The small particles of RNA also attracted the ...
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Marc Stevens and colleagues reveal weak spot in internet security
Marc Stevens, PhD student of Ronald Cramer, and colleagues have found a weak spot in internet security. As a consequence of this weak spot in the infr...
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Peter Grünwald professor statistical learningAs of November 1st, Peter Grünwald has been appointed professor Statistical learning on a new chair hosted by both the Mathematical Institute and the ...