Twenty-two promising, young Utrecht researchers have been awarded a Veni grant of up to 280,000 euros by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
Jan van der Valk will be leaving as head of the 3Rs-Centre at the end of 2021. In the last few years he more or less personified the centre all by himself, with a few support staff who came and went.
Personality determines to a large extend how susceptible a person is to contagious yawning. Researchers conclude this after displaying videos of yawning people to a large and diverse group of test subjects.
Researchers from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and WUR have investigated the possible cause of death of the 190 dead porpoises that washed ashore on the Dutch coast last Summer.
New research shows that people who live in rural areas with many cattle farms still have a greater chance of contracting pneumonia than people who live in rural areas with fewer or no cattle farms nearby.
