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How Leiden researchers are going to fight Gaucher's disease with a start-up07 April 2020It has kept Leiden professor Hans Aerts busy throughout his academic career: Gaucher's disease, a hereditary metabolic disease. Together with professo...
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Arthur Ram receives NWO grant to improve enzyme factory06 April 2020This year, microbiologist Arthur Ram will start new research on producing useful enzymes in bulk. Ram receives an NWO grant for this project that will...
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help06 April 2020Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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Keep busy with these astronomy activities you can do from home02 April 2020Stuck at home with little to do? Don’t worry, because we have the perfect space related activities you can do from home, alone or with your family, in...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!25 March 2020Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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Road to Paris24 March 2020From 28th of May to 1st of June, we, Robin, Marie, Mireia, Frank, Bram, Wim and Johan are starting the challenge of our lives in which we want to rais...
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Enjoy the photo exhibition in the Old Observatory from home19 March 2020Two radio telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginia have brought together a few remarkable people. A new photo exhibition in the Old Observatory visitor...
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Here is how you can help astronomers to identify black holes17 March 2020Scientists are asking your help to find the origin of hundreds of thousands of galaxies that have been discovered by the largest radio telescope ever ...
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Special Earthly life on display in Old Observatory photo exhibition12 March 2020Two radio telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginiahave brought together a few remarkable people. A new photo exhibition in the Old Observatory visitor ...
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Two-photon microscope captures plant cells09 March 2020Leiden physicists are helping Wageningen plant researchers to study unpredictable plant embryos. For this, they are using a novel two-photon fluoresce...
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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career03 March 2020Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experience...
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The QSPainRelief consortium will improve the treatment of chronic pain28 February 2020The €6.24 million EU-funded research project QSPainRelief has kicked off. The project aims to help patients suffering from chronic pain with novel, pe...
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This is how ESA telescope Euclid is going to visualise dark matter25 February 2020How can you see something that’s invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the Universe and teach us more abou...
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Lively debate at public symposium on sustainability21 February 2020A public symposium was held at Leiden University on 20 February on a hot topic: renewable energy. This is the second time in a year that the Universit...
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Partnering with businesses to scale up metabolism research21 February 2020Predicting whether someone will fall ill and which treatment will benefit them most: that is the aim of the techniques that Professor of Analytical Bi...