The way organisms develop from the initial single-cellular state to a complex final assembly like the human body, and how the final body is maintained throughout life, is one of the greatest mysteries and it’s understanding one of the biggest scientific challenges.

All life on earth contains DNA, which is used to store biological information. Organisms compact their DNA in order for it to fit inside their cell(s).

Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability: deepening, broadening and leaping forward the LCA methodology.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.

De opleiding Life Science and Technology (LST) stond 9 september 2014 met een feestelijk gebakje stil bij haar 15 jarig bestaan. Het gaat bijzonder goed met de opleiding. Er zijn veel eerstejaars studenten en LST masterstudenten vinden of vóór hun diploma-uitreiking of er vlak na een goede baan.

In this work, we attempt to answer the question:

Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a gram-negative plant pathogen belonging to the family Rhizobiaceae, is the causative agent of crown gall disease, which can affect many plant species including agronomically important ones.

Samen met mevrouw J. Hessels en de heer C.A. Rietveld heeft dr. P.W. van der Zwan het artikel 'Self-employment and satisfaction with life, work, and leisure' in de Journal of Economic Psychology gepubliceerd.

Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo en Dr. R. Heijungs

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

The lysosomal β-glucosidase named glucocerebrosidase (GCase) is a retaining β-glucosidase that hydrolyzes the glycosphingolipid glucosylceramide (GlcCer) to ceramide and glucose at acid pH.

Hoe meer we leren over een (neuro-)psychologische of lichamelijke aandoening en de hieraan gerelateerde gedragsfactoren, hoe beter we deze niet alleen kunnen signaleren, maar ook behandelen. Het is dus belangrijk dat recente inzichten over (neuro-)psychologische problemen en daaraan gerelateerde gedragsfactoren…

The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

Stochastic resetting is simple enough to be approached analytically, yet modifies stochastic processes in a non-trivial way.

To gain more insight into the evolutionary development of orchid flowers and fruits, the orchid species Erycina pusilla was studied. The evolutionary origin of the median petaloid sepal, the callus on the labellum, and the stelidia was studied.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt

Veteranen die door een missie posttraumatische klachten oplopen, hebben vaak veel last van complexe en chronische klachten. Bijzonder hoogleraar Eric Vermetten zoekt naar nieuwe manieren om die hardnekkige klachten te helpen verwerken. Eén van de mogelijke medicijnen: de partydrug MDMA.

Hieronder kun je een antwoord vinden op de meestgestelde vragen over de master. Wordt jouw vraag niet beantwoord? Neem gerust contact met ons op voor een gepersonaliseerd antwoord via: masterva@lumc.nl.

Current therapies for patients with atherosclerosis are targeted primarily on reducing blood cholesterol, but this fails to prevent a large number of cardiovascular events.95 In order to identify new therapeutic strategies for treating atherosclerosis, it is important to study the interactions between…

Promotores:Th.J.C. van Berkel, M. van Eck

Acute cardiovascular clinical events such as myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke represent the major cause of death in Western societies. These pathologies are primarily resulting from atherosclerosis, a progressive condition characterized by the accumulation of lipids, immune cells, and fibrous…

Integrins play an essential role in multicellular life by connecting cells to the extracellular matrix.

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made materials which derive their unusual properties from their structure rather than their composition.

This thesis is an experimental study of the UV irradiation of the interstellar ice analogues, relevant for the different stages of the star and planet formation sequence.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen

Comparing the global warming potential (GWP) of the service provided by an iRex Digital Reader to the same service provided by an office printer using a scanning LCA.

Het FAIRDOM-consortium is een open initiatief van verschillende partners, waaronder financieringsprogramma's, grote consortia, instituten, kleine groepen en individuen.

What is the environmental impact of different waste collection systems across Europe? How can the collection be improved when considering collection, sorting, and treatment, as well as use options for secondary materials?

The main focus of the thesis is the discovery and development of novel inhibitors of bacterial metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs).

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Sterrewacht Leiden (STRW)

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

The aim is to develop methods to assess environmental and occupational exposure to (individual) pesticides, to be applied in epidemiological studies investigating pesticide exposure and human health. Furthermore, we aim to investigate the potential association between exposure to pesticides and Parkinson’s…

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Sociale Wetenschappen, Politieke Wetenschap

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Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen

Promotor: J. Kuiper

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar

Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most common type of breast cancer.