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Scientists at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ investigated if dogs can adapt to their new environment based on their nocturnal activity.

Irrigation is sensitive to salt, but also seems to be the most important driver of salinisation – even in wetter areas. How can we break this vicious cycle?

The finals of the Food for Health and Safety Challenge were held last Friday, when 10 teams from TU/e, WUR, UU and UMC Utrecht presented their ideas for a new food concept for the Ministry of Defence.

What makes a medicine safe and effective for one species but highly toxic for another? A cow is very different from a lapdog, bird or tortoise, explains veterinary pharmacologist Ronette Gehring. ‘Animal species have entirely different reactions to medicines. We want to find out why.’

Animal testing plays an important role in the development of medicine and broader scientific research. However, the practice has been coming under growing scrutiny in recent years.

We still don't have a clear idea of the future of livestock farming. One thing is certain, though: animal welfare is becoming increasingly important. So what role should veterinarians play in shaping tomorrow's livestock farming industry?

The figures don't lie. Technological advancements are making it increasingly easy to accurately measure horses' movements. Gait analysis has been widely used on humans for some time now.

In the period between 2018 and 2020, a total of 1.4 million people signed the ‘End the Cage Age’ petition, which aims to end cage housing of farm animals in Europe. In response to this civic initiative, the European Parliament commissioned Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ researchers to prepare an advisory report on the potential for abolishing cage housing.

On 2 August, Debbie Jaarsma – currently Professor of Research and Innovation in Medical Education at UMC Groningen – will become Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ will be researching whether air quality affects the course and severity of COVID-19 in the Netherlands.

With a Rubicon grant researchers can conduct research for a period up to 24 months at an international research institute.

Today, a ship will set sail with a crew of students from the universities of Utrecht, Eindhoven and Wageningen and UMC Utrecht.

The number of experiments conducten on animals at Utrechtľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and the UMC Utrecht rose from 19.078 to 20.433 in 2020.

A European research cluster of scientists, industry and policy makers will investigate the effect of microplastics in the human body.

Feral cats that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were infected by mink and not by humans. This has been shown in recent research by Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) and Wageningen Bioveterinary Research.

This year, two Utrecht teachers managed to secure a Senior Fellow grant. Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ also won a Leadership Fellowship for the first time.

The 3rd and 4th of June marked the official launch of the new MOMENTUM consortium. The launch began with a two-day online kick-off meeting brought all 28 partners together to get to know one another better and to define the plans for the coming period.

A so-called Google Air View Car, fitted with advanced air quality equipment by Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, measured the air quality on every single street in Copenhagen several times during a period of two years. After six million measurements, the Project Air View team, shared the final map.

The Exposome-Scan project, that builds on Exposome-NL and X-omics, has been awarded 3.2 million euros from the NWO Investment Grant Large programme. With the grant the researchers will build a unique and large-scale open facility for research into the so-called exposome.

On May 18 dr. Pieter Vader received the Prix Galien Research award for young pharmaceutical researchers. The award and the Pharmaceutical, Medtech and Covid19 award were handed out during Dutch Health Week.

Start-up company NanoCell Therapeutics, which develops a nanomedicine to cure cancer and other diseases, establishes its home base on the Utrecht Science Park.

What exactly is an organoid? Scientists now publish the first consensus on what is – and what is not – an organoid.

Yawning appears to be a measure of brain size. Animals with larger brains yawn longer than those with smaller brains, according to research by biologist Jorg Massen.

Doctors from UMC Utrecht, Erasmus MC and UMC Groningen have performed the first heart transplantation after cardiac death in the Netherlands. The procedure can drastically increase the number of heart donors available nationwide every year.

Regenerative Medicine Utrecht is awardede for its Kennisplatform (knowledge platoform) by KNAW.