Professor Albert Heck of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has delivered the prestigious Mendel Lecture on 17 October 2024. As part of this honour, he received an accompanying Mendel Medal.
Celebrating its tenth annual symposium, the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) welcomed over 200 participants. The symposium offered a chance to look back on a decade of progress in bioinformatics and explore what lies ahead.
Making brains generate their own therapeutics could be a promising approach to slowing or even stopping the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Researcher Niels Reinders has shown in lab experiments that this approach could work.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for the development of AlphaFold2 and to David Baker for his work on protein design
Female and male primates often form close bonds, but not purely out of affection. Close relationships usually evolve when there is a clear benefit for both parties, with protection and reproductive control playing key roles.
Renske ten Ham has received a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research into improving cost-effectiveness analyses for gene therapies.
Taking antibiotics at a young age can make the body more prone to asthma and allergies later in life. This might be preventable by adding a simple supplement, concludes immunologist Olaf Perdijk from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ. His comprehensive study is published today in the journal Immunity.
