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Research into the development of heart failure cannot yet be done without animal testing. But thanks to improved techniques, half as many animals are now needed to study the metabolism of heart cells in the development of heart failure.

Scientists Daniel Keszthelyi and Anna Beckers from Maastricht University (UM) are to receive a prestigious European grant for early career researchers: the Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

On 1 November 2022, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam became a partner of the Institute for human organ and Disease Model Technologies (hDMT), a non-profit organisation.

Six researchers at Radboud University receive a Starting Grant of the European Rersearch Council (ERC).

Six researchers at Utrecht University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.  The European Research Council awarded the €1.5 million grant to  Yang Yao , Frederik Verweij , Daan Weits , Niko Wanders , Floris Schuiling and  Daan van Uhm.

Bartels will use this personal grant from NWO to a better understanding of the causes of differences in happiness and wellbeing. People who feel good function better and have more lasting relationships. With advanced data analysis techniques and wellbeing training in large samples with (epi) genetic, metabolic, and environmental data, the pathways to and from wellbeing will be mapped.

A fungus that turns ants into zombies sometimes becomes the victim of other fungal species itself.

Grant allows international team to investigate a fundamental feature of animal cells Cell biologist and Utrecht University-professor Anna Akhmanova is part of an international research team that has been awarded the ERC Synergy Grant.

The orca that stranded and eventually died near Cadzand last Saturday had severe gum inflammation. The female also had inflammation in several internal organs and had not eaten for some time.

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death worldwide. UT researchers Robert Passier, Jeroen Leijten, and partners receive seven million euros for two grants to further develop miniature hearts that can be used for studying heart diseases and testing drugs.

Research Infrastructure for Food, Nutrition and Health blog This blog was written by Jaap van der Meer and Saskia Visser The seas and oceans are considered as a great underutilized source of human food and some recent reports* suggest that marine food production can be increased substantially.

Professor María Suárez Diez has been appointed as the new chairholder at the laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology at Wageningen University & Research.

Kim Kuypers is associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience in het department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology at Maastricht University. Her research mainly focusses on MDMA and psychedelics, and what their effects are on cognition, creativity, homones and the underlying brain mechanisms.

Is associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience in het department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology at Maastricht University. Her research mainly focusses on MDMA and psychedelics, and what their effects are on cognition, creativity, homones and the underlying brain mechanisms.

A team of scientists, including several from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, have won the Ig Nobel Prize.

Swimming tiny robots may offer new ways to deliver cancer drugs exactly where they are needed most, making new treatments possible.

The vast majority of animal experiments involving joint cartilage repair in scientific journals is incompletely reported.

The relatively new Science for Sustainability community at Utrecht University has funded four brand-new PhD positions.

During warm summers, the news media frequently reports on mortality among aquatic birds and fish as a result of botulism.

When under duress innocent suspects can make a false confession. Why is this? Legal psychologist Linda Geven will give a talk about this at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition's Brain & Law event.

Three PhD students of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will start with a Mosaic 2.0 grant of NWO for their PhD research.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded eight researchers from Nijmegen a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This will allow them to develop an innovative line of research and build up their own research group for the next five years. Vidi is aimed at excellent researchers who have been producing successful research for a number of years since obtaining their PhD.

Showering, cleaning, flushing toilets, and industrial production are all processes that use a great deal of water.