https://www.uu.nl/en en Sat, 04 May 2024 01:28:36 +0200 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:00:00 +0200 https://www.uu.nl/en/news/new-antibiotic-from-microbial-dark-matter-could-be-powerful-weapon-against-superbugs A new powerful antibiotic, isolated from bacteria that could not be studied before, seems capable to combat harmful bacteria and even multi-resistant ‘superbugs’. The antibiotic appears to kill bacteria in an unusual way, making it more difficult for bacteria to develop any resistance against it. 133078 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/carolyn-bertozzi-awarded-2022-nobel-prize-in-chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry" 123988 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:42:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/bijvoet-medals-awarded-to-carolyn-bertozzi-and-vishva-dixit On September 30, 2022, the Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research awarded Bijvoet Medals to Carolyn Bertozzi and Vishva Dixit on the occasion of their Heineken Prize Lectures 123867 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:45:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/computer-simulations-visualize-how-stem-cell-protein-opens-wrapped-dna A key protein for converting adult stem cells back into a state that resembles embryonic stem cells has been visualized in unprecedented detail by an international team of researchers. 123514 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:11:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/markus-weingarth-wins-icmrbs-founders-medal For his cutting-edge research into the killing mechanisms of antibiotics, Markus Weingarth has received the Founders' Medal. 122640 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:44:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/youngest-antibiotic-kills-bacteria-via-a-new-two-step-mechanism Insight into the killing mechanism of the antibiotic teixobactin will enable to design powerful antibiotics against which bacteria do not readily develop resistance. 121821 Wed, 03 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/dna-mantle-repair-happens-in-one-rather-than-several-steps The repair of the inner mantle protecting DNA in the cell nucleus, is done by one repair protein instead of several in a stepwise process. 121945 Wed, 27 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/three-erc-consolidator-grants-for-utrecht-based-researchers Three researchers from Utrecht University and the Hubrecht Institute have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. The 2 million Euro grants enable researchers to further extend their scientific endeavour. 114838 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:28:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/the-bonvin-lab-published-the-deep-learning-framework-deeprank The Bonvin lab at Utrecht University in collaboration with Li Xue’s group in Nijmegen and the Netherland eScience Center recently published DeepRank, a deep learning (DL) framework for data mining 3D protein-protein structures, in Nature Communications and GitHub.  112845 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:54:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/euromar-2022 On behalf of the Scientific Committees of the EUROMAR and AMPERE organisations, we are delighted to welcome you to EUROMAR 2022 in Utrecht, The Netherlands! 109788 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:55:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/highly-advanced-nmr-instrument-arrived-at-utrecht-science-park A new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrument: “Sort of MRI that lets you study molecules” 103603 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:48:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/new-protocol-for-modeling-membrane-associated-protein-assemblies The Utrecht computational structural biology group has developed a new protocol for the modeling of membrane-associated protein assemblies. 102468 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:37:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/europes-largest-initiative-launches-to-accelerate-therapy-development-for-covid-19-and-future The CARE consortium is the largest undertaking of its kind dedicated to discovering and developing urgently needed treatment options for COVID-19. 98769 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/uncovering-the-tricks-of-game-changer-antibiotic-teixobactin Utrecht scientists discovered how the powerful antibiotic teixobactin kills bacteria. 96834 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/nearly-18-million-euro-for-nmr-consortium The uNMR-NL consortium has been awarded a unprecedented amount from the Roadmap funds, to turn the NMR facility into a nationwide grid. 95215 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:00:00 +0200 Nieuws uNMR-NL https://www.uu.nl/en/news/new-nmr-approach-for-studying-droplet-shaped-cell-content Organelles do not have fixed locations in cells. And now Utrecht scientists observed them with a high degree of precision. 84155 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/millions-for-fungal-architecture Utrecht research will contribute in developing fungus-based bricks that make building materials more sustainable and self-repairing. 82723 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:31:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/structural-basis-of-specific-h2a-k13k15-ubiquitination-by-rnf168 Publication in Nature Communications 76429 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:29:00 +0200 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/16-million-euros-for-research-into-social-protein-networks-in-the-cell NWO has awarded a research grant to a collaboration between researchers from Utrecht and Wageningen and industry. 72267 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:55:00 +0100 Nieuws https://www.uu.nl/en/news/the-strange-phenomenon-of-random-activity-jumps-in-ion-channels The study, led by Markus Weingarth, is published in Nature Communications today. 71305 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0100 Nieuws