ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ

Chemist Rüdiger and his group aim to tackle diseases that are caused by protein misfolding, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease.

Fertilization and grazing animals affect plant diversity by influencing the competition for light between plant species, researchers report in a Nature paper.

Future Food Utrecht interviewed PhD-candidate Irene Lenoir-Wijnkoop about her international career, her research and the enjoyment of completing a PhD later in life.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"

Celbioloog Anna Akhmanova en internationale collega's ontvangen bijna 10 miljoen euro om te bestuderen hoe cellen duwen en zich door hun omgeving dringen.

Meststoffen en grazende dieren veranderen de plantendiversiteit doordat ze de lichtconcurrentie tussen planten beïnvloeden, zo schrijven onderzoekers in Nature.

Cell biologist Anna Akhmanova is part of an international research team that receives close to 10 million euros to study how cells push into their environment.

Kennis over de nieuw ontdekte bacteriesoort kan bijdragen aan de ontwikkeling van nieuwe technieken die de concentratie methaan in de atmosfeer verlagen.

On September 30, 2022, the Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research awarded Bijvoet Medals to Carolyn Bertozzi and Vishva Dixit on the occasion of their Heineken Prize Lectures

Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga has been appointed professor of Evidence-Based Transition to Animal-free Innovations at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine as of 1 June 2022.

Every year, more than a quarter of all harvests worldwide is lost due to diseases and plagues. The question of how plants can protect themselves against this leads Spinoza laureate Corné Pieterse to the most basic fundamentals of plant life.

Immunoloog Gestur Vidarsson onderzoekt hoe een suiker in antilichamen afweerreacties doet afnemen. De suiker eruit halen, kan een immuunreactie sterker maken.

Virusdeeltjes van SARS-CoV-2 zijn bestand tegen grote fysieke krachten. Dat bepaalt mede hun succes, zo schrijft de nieuwe UU-hoogleraar Jan Lipfert in PNAS.

Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga is per 1 juni 2022 benoemd tot hoogleraar Evidence-Based Transitie Proefdiervrije Innovaties bij de faculteit Diergeneeskunde van de Universiteit Utrecht.

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.

Size matters when it comes to preserving biodiversity in natural areas. Larger and strictly protected areas are clearly more effective, according to biologists.

The molecule blocks a toxic protein that causes many cases of lethal diarrhea in developing countries.

Het molecuul blokkeert een giftig eiwit dat in ontwikkelingslanden veel dodelijke diarree-gevallen veroorzaakt.

NWO subsidie van 4,8 miljoen euro voor breed consortium voor de ontwikkeling van een broodnodige universele standaard voor de farmaceutische industrie.

Interview with Corné Pieterse, newly appointed chair of the science for life domain of the life sciences strategic theme.