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Using a computer model that reveals how plants grow thicker over time, biologists have uncovered how cells are activated to produce wood tissue. Understanding the fundamentals behind this growth, they hope to advance forestry practices and CO₂ storage in trees.

Making brains generate their own therapeutics could be a promising approach to slowing or even stopping the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Researcher Niels Reinders has shown in lab experiments that this approach could work.

The findings might have implications for the development of new innovative materials that use bacteria to replace non-sustainable dyes.

Ana Krotenberg Garcia: "Instead of making cancer weaker, you could also focus on strengthening healthy cells and transforming them into winners."

The Institute for Chemical Neuroscience has been awarded a 23.23 million euro Gravitation grant. Utrecht University professor Maarten Kole is one of the applicants of the project.