The new chair connects data science with childhood cancer research, and strengthens the collaboration between Utrecht University and the Princess Máxima Center.
Plants can't run from danger, yet they have survived for hundreds of millions of years. Utrecht researchers have now discovered one of the clever tricks lettuce uses to defend itself against disease.
A consortium led by biochemist Hugo van Ingen has been awarded €3.4 million by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to modernise the Netherlands’ national Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) infrastructure.
Biophysicist Friedrich Förster has been elected a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Förster develops pioneering methods that allow scientists to observe molecular processes directly inside living cells.
Animals behave differently when they have more opportunities to cooperate. The findings raise an important question: are scientists seeing only part of the picture in standard behavioural experiments?