285 search results for “membrane fusion” in the Public website
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A step closer to sustainable energy from seawater
The research group headed by Leiden chemist Marc Koper has discovered a catalyst that minimizes the production of chlorine gas during salt water electrolysis. The invention can enable the direct production of hydrogen from seawater. The article has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical…
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More efficient drug development with the help of computer models
The coronavirus has the world in its grip. Finding a cure has never been more important. Unfortunately, the development of new drugs for treatment of the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus and development of a vaccine are complex, lengthy, and above all costly processes. With the help of computer…
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How do children's kidneys eliminate drugs?
What dose of medicine do you give a child? That depends to a large extent on how quickly their kidneys remove the drug from the blood. For ethical reasons it is impossible to measure this directly in little patients. PhD candidate Sinziana Cristea combined different types of modelling and lots of data…
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Laura Heitman appointed as Professor of Molecular Pharmacology
As of 1 November, Laura Heitman has been appointed full Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). Heitman has been working on the understanding and improvement of drug-receptor interactions in early drug discovery. ‘My ultimate aim is to make medicines…
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Spinoza Prize for Michel Orrit, Professor of Spectroscopy
It is partly thanks to Leiden professor Michel Orrit that we are today able to study individual molecules. He just missed winning a Nobel Prize, but is today the recipient of another important scientific award: NWO’s prestigious Spinoza Prize.
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Steering the immune system with liposomes
Liposomes – nano-sized spheres composed of fatty molecules – are very promising for vaccination. Bio-pharmaceutical scientist Naomi Benne discovered that the immune response in animal models can be steered by varying the charge of the liposomes. She obtained her PhD degree on 8 September for this research,…
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Joan van der Waals colloquium
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FRESH Lecture
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SSNMR Lecture - Molecular disease mechanisms in neurodegeneration: solid-state NMR studies of protein aggregation and mitochondrial lipid oxidation
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This Week's Discoveries | 4 February 2020
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Guiding Travelers Workshop: Visual Religion
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Cooperation in corvids and the evolution of cognition.
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LIACS Research Seminar
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Guiding Travelers Workshop: Visual Religion
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Energy and matter at the origin of life
Lecture, Van Leeuwenhoek Lecture on BioScience
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Publications
Recent publications
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Light Harvesting Satellite Meeting of the 17th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research
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Virologist Eric Snijder: ‘Vaccination will be going well in 2021’
The research group of Eric Snijder, Professor of Molecular Virology (LUMC), has been conducting research on coronaviruses for decades. Then in March this year their work accelerated at an unprecedented rate. The first new results are now available: insight into how the virus replicates.
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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Screening enormous databases to find a cure for cancer
Pharmaceutical research should make more use of data science, says Gerard van Westen, postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). ‘If we want to have better drugs, we should start with data.’
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Is a cancer pill a matter of time?
A cancer pill, preferably without severe side effects, is something we’d all welcome. Is it a matter of time before such a pill is a reality? We put this question to three Leiden researchers and asked how they themselves are contributing to new cancer treatments.
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This Week's Discoveries | 23 May 2017
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Trends in image-based phenotypic screening
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This Week's Discoveries | 18 June 2019
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This Week’s Discoveries | 24 April 2018
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This Week’s Discoveries | 29 May 2018
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Kamran Matin: Lineages of the Islamic State: An international historical sociology of State (de‐)formation in Iraq
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
- Low-temperature CO oxidation over Pt-Fe/SiO2 and Pt/ɣ-Fe2O3 catalysts
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Overview of Molecular Physiology publications
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Online exhibition
TEXTS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT. Highlights from the Collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute. Online exhibition on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation ‘Het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut’ in 2015.
- Van Leeuwenhoek Lectures on BioScience
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This Week's Discoveries | 15 October 2019
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Theses
Full texts of all bachelor, master and PhD theses are available on this site
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Older publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Environmental Biology (1972-2015)