In the media
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Felienne Hermans explains why you should talk to your computer11 January 2021Why should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In th...
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Programming is easy to learn21 December 2020The easy-to-learn programming language Hedy has been used more than 100,000 times in no more than 9 months. Felienne Hermans was a guest in the broadc...
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Technique from new cars helps with surgery selection Parkinson's disease09 November 2020When parking in reverse, your car skids off just a little, hitting the wall of the parking garage. On the car dashboard, a warning light immediately s...
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Micro boat makes world tour27 October 2020World wide press attention for the article and specifically the image of the 30 micrometer long micro boat 3DBenchy by Rachel Doherty, Daniela Kraft a...
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Bots like you05 October 2020Can we study what makes us human through the eyes of a robot? Peter van der Putten and Maarten Lamers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Sci...
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Nathaniel Martin in podcast about antimicrobial resistance23 September 2020Professor Biological chemistry Nathaniel Martin from the Institute of Biology Leiden is interviewed by the Netherlands Innovation Network on innovativ...
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National and international media attention for longevity gene21 September 2020A publication in Nature Plants by a team of Leiden biologists has received national and international media attention. The researchers can have annual...
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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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A compound that gives life as easily as it takes: Jan Willem Erisman on BBC about ammonium nitrate11 September 2020Following the Beirut explosion, BBC's podcast series The Foodchain explores the chemical that caused the blast: ammonium nitrate. A compound that is w...
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Cell-based medicinal products: grant rejected, paper published26 June 2020Cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs) belong to an innovative and heterogeneous group of medicines called advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)....
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In the media: Daniela Kraft in Academic Stories about nanoparticle robots27 May 2020Daniela Kraft speaks to Academic Stories about self-assembling soft matter, nanorobots, the importance of female rodels in science, and the unique fre...
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Six-feet society in pictures06 May 2020The six-feet society is being built up rapidly; arrows and planes made of tape, circles and stripes of chalk, fences and other barriers are popping up...
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Programming resembles learning a language06 April 2020What languages do you speak? According to Felienne Hermans, ‘Python’ could be an answer to this question. Hermans studies how people learn to program ...
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From intuition to data03 April 2020Dutch speedskaters have been winning the most medals in speed skating at the Winter Olympics for years. How? Based on their intuition. Scientist Jeroe...
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International media report on Leiden dosage app for corona patients30 March 2020Coen van Hasselt's research group quickly produced an app that enables doctors to determine the correct dosage of commonly used medicines for corona p...