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Tsinghua and Leiden researchers find that China is crucial for realising a circular economy
A new study on the province level material footprint of China underscores the need to improve resource efficiency in the country, which would be crucial for moving to a circular economy. The research carried out by researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and Leiden University was published…
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal.
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Dutch East Indies tax system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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How to make an old antibiotic a hundred times more potent
Nathaniel Martin, Professor of Biological chemistry, wondered what would happen if you take an antibiotic that has been known for 70 years and try to improve it with the latest tools of modern chemistry. Turns out it can become up to a hundred times more potent and prevent the growth of some drug-resistant…
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PhD-vacancy at the IBL on the neurogenomics of vocal learning
This project on the role of FoxPs in vocal perception and production learning is part of nine PhD-positions funded by the NWO Gravitation Programme which was granted to the Dutch Research Consortium 'Language in Interaction'
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Virtual children help prevent withdrawal syndrome in real children
When children wean off from heavy medication, they often experience withdrawal symptoms. The severity of these symptoms is often difficult to predict. Pharmacologist Bas Goulooze developed a computer model to determine the best weaning strategy for each child. His research has now been published in…
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Common frame for analyzing complex systems in Physics and Economics
Scientists often need to make sense of complex systems without knowing the important parameters or even without access to all the information. A collaboration of network theorists, including Diego Garlaschelli (IMT Lucca/Leiden), has now published a review article in the inaugural issue of Nature Reviews…
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Droplet formation caught on camera
Those pesky raindrops that get you wet on your way to work, are formed high up in the sky from clouds of water vapour. The process of nucleation describes the way this happens. Edgar Blokhuis of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry developed a theory to describe this transition more precisely. Chemists…
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Two-pronged attack on infectious diseases
A combination of two potential drugs gives hope of a 'super blockage' of an over-active immune system, Leiden researchers report in Nature. The breakthrough came from the crystallisation of a membrane protein.
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CWTS chooses new leadership - Sarah de Rijcke new director
The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (Leiden University) has adopted a new governance structure. As of January 1, 2019, the centre will be led by Prof. Sarah de Rijcke, who has been appointed by the board of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (FSW) as the new scientific director…
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Reunionists of Leiden Historical Debating Society celebrate 65th anniversary: 'We are more alive than ever'
Friday 4 November marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Leiden’s P.C. Hooft Historical Debating Society. Although new members have not been accepted for several decades, the society is still alive and kicking. A retrospective with former presidents Jos Hooghuis and Saskia Leupen.
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Young Medical Delta Symposium: Accessibility to and through MedTech
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Non-invasive assessment of human brown adipose tissue
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Chronic diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis/tendoperiostitis of the mandible Standard of care
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Prison or refuge? Women and the state labour institutions in the Netherlands 1886-1934
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The immune divide: Factors influencing immune variation and differences in vaccine responses
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Measurement of microcirculation in clinical research
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Metabolic hormones and ethnic aspects in obesity
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Role of gut-liver axis in circadian exercise and dietary interventions to improve metabolic health
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A Matter of Skills: A Mixed-Method Study on the Evaluation and Implementation of an SEL Program Tailored to the Skills Adolescents Need in Educational
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Visuospatial neglect during and after geriatric rehabilitation, keeping it NeAR
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Beyond the cloudiness in urinary tract infection: definitions, diagnostics, and strategies for prevention
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Maneuvering through a World of Stressors
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Prevalence and burden of pain in Huntington's disease
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Advancing cardiac safety and drug discovery screening using human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
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Appropriate treatment for older patients with cancer: the importance of geriatric assessment and blood biomarkers for patient-related outcomes
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Unraveling the drivers of antimicrobial pharmacokinetic variability in individuals with obesity and hospitalized patients with multimorbidity
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Dosing considerations for preterm neonates
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Pathways to Proteinuria
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Braver Together
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Lateral Lymph Nodes in Rectal Cancer
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Exploring Cellular and Molecular Diversity between Human Skeletal Muscles: Similar but Not the Same
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Diagnosis and post-treatment monitoring of schistosomiasis in endemic and non-endemic settings by quantification of schistosome circulating anodic
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Genomics applications of Nanopore long-read sequencing for small to large sized genomes
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Exercise is medicine: longstanding exercise therapy in people with axial spondyloarthritis and severe functional limitations
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Quantitative pharmacological modelling for optimizing treatment of sepsis
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Pumping new life into preclinical pharmacokinetics; Exploring the pharmacokinetic application of ex vivo organ perfusion
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Re-entry support from prison-based and community-based professionals
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Targeting adipose tissue to improve cardiometabolic health
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The spectrum of central serous chorioretinopathy
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Clinical pharmacology studies investigating novel formulations of dopaminergic drugs
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A Challenging Rehabilitation Environment
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Formación ciudadana en universidades chilenas
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Exercise therapy in people with rheumatoid arthritis and severe functional disability
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Genetic and cellular origins of histiocytic neoplasms
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Shining Light on Proteolysis by the Ubiquitin Proteasome System
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From Risks to Public Opinion: How Structural Economic Changes Shape Political Attitudes and Policy Preferences
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Patient-Centered Value-Based Healthcare in Long-term Follow-up after Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation for Nonmalignant Diseases
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Digging through data: the rise and fall of a Miocene mammal biodiversity hotspot in the Vallès-Penedès (Catalonia, Spain)
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