Background

Live Laugh Love?

While poverty in the world is gradually decreasing, and the 'global south' is catching up with Western living standards, we are busy optimizing our maximum (healthy) lifespan.

Jordy Janssen • October 04, 2023

Background

The vicious cycle of coffee

If you have ever been to one of the many libraries in Leiden University you may have noticed the amount of students that might be holding cardboard cups with the smell of coffee coming from it as they pass you by. How has this drink become such an important part of the daily life of students?

Clarissa Falempin • April 06, 2023

Background

Trials in the Trash

What happens when pharmaceutical companies hide negative clinical trials?

Saskia Pieters • January 20, 2023

Interview

Clicking molecules

This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry went to the scientists who developed click chemistry, a technique that quickly and easily bonds molecules together. For professor of bio-organic synthesis Hermen Overkleeft (53), this Nobel Prize did not come as a surprise.

Merlijne Smit • December 21, 2022

Event

And then, the award ceremony

In January, iGEM Leiden will be starting a new project. And you can join! But what is iGEM anway? And what is it like to participate? Matthijs Hamstra (22) en Tino Hoeksma (24), members of the iGEM 2022 team, explain.

Nienke Franken • December 12, 2022

Research

Rebuilding bones: like stacking LEGO®

This featured guest article by Imogen Powell tells us about an interesting new study, in which researchers try to come up with a method for curing bone disease.

Imogen Powell • October 21, 2022

Research

A fresh view in combatting Tuberculosis

During the course Popular Science Writing, students are asked to write an article based on a scientific talk, a practice that is close to our hearts. This week, an article about the centuries-old disease Tuberculosis by Louke Nieman.

Louke Nieman • April 22, 2022

Background

Is oxytocin all we need?

Before you start concocting your own love potion, it might be a good idea to dive into the chemistry behind love. A scientific view on one of the drivers behind this complex emotion.

Claudia Santos Gonçalves • February 17, 2022

Interview

The science in the cards of ImmunoWars

Imagine: you’d like to bring the current state of immunology to the general public in an understandable and fun way. That’s quite a challenge, so how can you best go about it? Well, with a card game of course!

Frank Rensen • November 22, 2021

Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences

Articles

Live Laugh Love?

The vicious cycle of coffee

Trials in the Trash

Clicking molecules

And then, the award ceremony

Rebuilding bones: like stacking LEGO®

A fresh view in combatting Tuberculosis

Is oxytocin all we need?

The science in the cards of ImmunoWars