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Saskia van Wees was appointed as Professor of Hormonal Regulation of Plant Resistance at the Department of Biology on 1 March of this year.

Theoretical biologists have solved a unique puzzle in the structure of plants’ vascular tissue. They can now explain how two different mutations with opposite effects lead to the same result.

Researchers have elucidated the molecular mechanism of the fungus that turns ants into living zombies.

As of 1 June, Eiko Kuramae has been appointed as Professor by Special Appointment of Microbial Community Ecology & Environmental Genomics.

In the early 1980s, Smeekens was able to clone Coronavirus RNA and to sequence the very first coronavirus gene, the E1 glycoprotein.

Lazy protein police is responsible for misfolding of Tau protein in Alzheimer's disease.

Scientists from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ clarified how loss of tumor suppressor genes can have two opposite outcomes.

Merel Soons and Yann Hautier in VSNU Magazine about SDG 15: ‘Life on land’

Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute and Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ generated an in-depth description of the hormone-producing cells in the human gut.

Researchers conclude that cortisol levels, an indicator of stress, decrease when the monkeys cooperate with a befriended group member.