Utrecht University biologist Rashmi Sasidharan receives a 700.000 Euro grant, allowing her to further extend her research on how plants cope with flooding.
Jeroen Sondervan, Open Access Expert at the Utrecht University Library, is one of the people quoted in the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about Utrecht University's mission.
Studying sperm cells in unprecedented detail reveals how some of the cell’s vital energy producers are arranged. This may provide new insights into sperm movement, as well as unknown causes of male infertility.
Nutrients can work in surprisingly similar ways as medicines. According to pharmacologists from Utrecht University, these similarities could help develop tailor-made diets to combat diseases.
Utrecht University professor Albert Heck has been awarded the Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship. Heck receives the prestigious lectureship for his scientific impact and multiple breakthroughs.
Whenever we learn or forget something, a surprisingly active role is played by cannabis-like substances in the brain. The discovery reveals how brain cells interact, and how psychiatric disorders can arise.
The treatment of laboratory animals has improved over the past seventy years, but our attitude towards them has not changed significantly, says PhD student Anne van Veen
A revolutionary method to make crops more resilient to climate change and other threats is one step closer to becoming reality. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has given the opportunity to further develop a plan for this.
Every person appears to have a completely unique immune system. The discovery could help explain why, for example, corona vaccines appear to be less effective for some people.