1,024 search results for “gene and plant studies” in the Staff website
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Caroline Fernandes Caromano
Faculty of Humanities
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Salma Balazadeh
Science
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Bacteria stunt with established plant-soil feedback theory
‘What I find most alluring about soil life is that you can steer it,’ researcher Martijn Bezemer of the Institute Biology Leiden (IBL) reveals. ‘You can ask: What do you want? And then I can transform the soil into something you need. At least, that is what we thought.’
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LUMC will administer first Dutch stem cell gene therapy to patients
Researchers and clinicians at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) are about to begin a milestone clinical study. It will be the first time a stem cell gene therapy developed in the Netherlands is used in a clinic. The therapy will be used to treat children with SCID, a rare disorder where children…
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Oude UB exhibition shows the beauty of ‘pavement plants’
For a few years now, Leiden’s Hortus botanicus has been mounting a campaign to cherish wild plants in the city – for the biodiversity and beauty of this spontaneous vegetation. Botanical artists reveal this beauty in an exhibition at Oude UB in Leiden.
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First patient in the Netherlands successfully treated with stem cell gene therapy
Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have successfully used stem cell gene therapy to treat a baby with the severe congenital immune disorder SCID. An important milestone: it is the first time stem cell gene therapy of Dutch origin has been administered to a patient, and also…
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Giant penis plant is blooming at Hortus botanicus
The ‘Amorphophallus titanum’ at the Hortus botanicus Leiden is blooming. This Titan Arum, also known as the ‘giant penis plant’, last flowered in 2009.
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Caught in living cells: how bacteria regulate their genes to defend themselves
For the first time, it was shown in living cells how the bacterium E. coli regulates genes that help it survive in a new environment. Biochemist Fatema Zahra Rashid managed to do this using a technique she fine-tuned. Her research into changes in 3-dimensional chromosome structure offers clues for ways…
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Berthe Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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Kiyan Foroutan
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Frishman
Faculty of Humanities
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Shahab Daneshvar
Faculty of Humanities
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Marat Markert
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria Riep
Faculteit Archeologie
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Hossein Pourbagheri
Faculty of Humanities
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Gjovalin Macaj
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Eftychia Mylona
Faculty of Humanities
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Shuqi Jia
Faculty of Humanities
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ERC-grant for Sebastian Pomplun to cure disease by controlling gene expression with synthetic transcription factors
Sebastian Pomplun receives an ERC starting grant of 1.85 million Euros in five years. He wants to develop synthetic transcription factors that can enter cells and activate or deactivate specific genes. For example to disrupt cancer-related processes or to trigger the production of an important missing…
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Hélène Nut
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Kees Colder
Faculty of Humanities
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Mubarika Nugraheni
Faculty of Humanities
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Chunli Song
Faculty of Humanities
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Al Al Farabi
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah Holma
Faculty of Humanities
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Pilar Jimenez Galindo
Faculty of Humanities
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Rients de Boer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Tim Wuisman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Arie van der Kooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcel Cobussen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiaxin Zhang
Science
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Emily Strange
Science
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Edmund Amann
Faculty of Humanities
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Léon Buskens
Faculty of Humanities
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Weishuo Li
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nathal Dessing
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Maurits Berger
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
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Jelle Bruning
Faculty of Humanities
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Chao Du
Science
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Pingtao Ding
Science
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A computational tool that will transform bacterial genome analysis
Whether a microbe is beneficial or harmful to a plant can now be predicted with high accuracy thanks to bacLIFE. This bioinformatic tool with an intuitive interface makes it much easier to unlock the secrets of bacterial genomes. A group of Leiden biologists presented it in Nature Communications.
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Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants
Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants do this? The Green TE (Green Tissue Engineering) consortium has been granted a Gravitation grant of almost 23 million euros to investigate exactly this…
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos Jordao
Faculty of Humanities
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Christian Henderson
Faculty of Humanities
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Discover plant-based food at the university during Meat- and Dairy-Free Week
Facility
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National Meat Free Week: the main reasons to switch to a plant-based diet
National Meat Free Week (Nationale Week Zonder Vlees, 7–13 March) is an initiative to reduce meat consumption. Assistant professor Paul Behrens is studying what impact a change in our food consumption would have on the world. What, according to him, are the main reasons to switch to a (mainly) plant-based…