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Former student, current student: Janneke van der Laan, senior animal welfare inspector at the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) in conversation with Lidewei de Boer, Master's student at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Pasha van Bijlert and Marius Dwars in conversation about the chicken and the dinosaur

Scientists call for better articles on animal testing.

Dutch Railways (NS) employees may have come into contact with chromium-6 between 1970 and 2020. It is not known exactly how often or how much this happened.

The New Utrecht School and the Journal of Trial and Error invite you to write a contribution to their special issue on scientific failure and uncertainty in the health domain.

The Alliance for Human Relevant Science and Animal Free Research UK has launched in July this year a one-of-its-kind online community.

They differ in terms of the research they do – but that makes the community more colourful. Heidi Lesscher, Sanne Nijhof en Odilia Laceulle all have the same focus: finding out how resilience works in children and how it can be strengthened.”

Every year, 100,000 animals are mistreated in the Netherlands, estimates the National Expert Center for Animal Cruelty (LED).

De nieuwe master Medical Humanities is van start gegaan.

The health and welfare of animals that produce our food is of great importance.

The orca that stranded and eventually died near Cadzand last Saturday had severe gum inflammation. The orca also had not eaten for some time.

Nitrogen is a many-headed monster

The orca that died on Cadzand beach in Zeeland on Saturday is being examined at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. It is a female of 5.17 metres and about 2,000 kilos.

The public debate on nitrogen measures seems to be mainly about seemingly conflicting interests around economics and nature.

Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) and the Dutch Federation of ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Medical Centres (NFU) jointly present a target for laboratory animal-free innovation in academic education.

On 23 November 2022 the Institute for Preventive Health (i4PH) of the alliance TU/e, WUR, UU, UMC Utrecht will organize the conference ‘Accelerating cooperation to stop overweight and obesity’.

Ventilation and air purification can help reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus through the air in buildings.

Maria Peeters, involved in Future of Work research at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has received funding for a team that will conduct AI-related research into burn-out.

Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are everywhere in our environment. Recent research shows that they might end up in placenta cells.

A new banana fungus is spreading rapidly across the world and now also in Africa, genetic research shows.

The knowledge alliance (EWUU) funds nine interdisciplinary projects investigating Artifical Intelligence (AI) for healthcare.

The potential impact of errors made by text mining tools on subsequent medical study results has received insufficient attention, and preconditions for responsible use of free text in such studies are absent.

Nine crossdisciplinary AI projects are funded by the alliance with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary collaborations among the four alliance partners and societal partners, to drive forward the development and application of AI to the benefit of society.

This call for project proposals aims to accelerate research focused on Preventive Health and to facilitate and financially support interdisciplinary collaborations between the four alliance institutions.

AI and ADS researchers often need big datasets to test and apply their algorithms. Within the YOUth cohort study such a set is now available.