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How does the brain create meaning from the enormous amount of information it constantly receives? According to neuroscientist Martin Vinck, the answer lies in large-scale integration: the way brain areas work together to enable thoughts, attention and consciousness.

VHLGenetics invested in an advanced Aviti sequencer in autumn 2025, while WUR-Bioscience guarantees a minimum number of runs per year.

VHLGenetics invested in an advanced Aviti sequencer in autumn 2025, while WUR-Bioscience guarantees a minimum number of runs per year.

A tiny parasitoid wasp from Asia has established itself in the Netherlands without deliberate release.

Julia Keppler has been appointed personal professor within the Food Process Engineering group at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) as of 1 March.

Engaging with your baby is essential from the very first day. A simple glance, a warm smile, or soft coos are the initial building blocks of connection and bonding, fostering development for both parent and child.

Next-gen businesses produce meat without animals and fish without a catch Highlight Cultivated meat and fish, and animal-free dairy products are rapidly becoming viable alternatives to animal-based products and could significantly reshape our future protein supply.

Society is asking ever more pressing questions about animals and the way in which we live alongside them.

An international team of researchers, led by microbiologist Martyna Glodowska from Radboud University, will use microorganisms to recover scarce metals from electronic waste.

Eating less meat and dairy benefits both public health and the climate. Yet the Netherlands is falling behind on the government's goal to source half of all protein from plant-based foods by 2030.

Our intestines probably have an influence on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, as well as depression and stress.

A tick bite can not only cause Lyme disease, but recently other diseases too, such as those caused by the Tick-Borne Encephalitis virus (TBE).

A highly destructive bacterium is threatening the cultivation of oranges, mandarins and lemons worldwide.

To find out whether migratory fish use the gaps in the Haringvliet sluices to access the rivers, Melanie Meijer zu Schlochtern is using transmitters to monitor over three hundred fish.

Nico Claassens' aim is to help bring about a circular bio-economy in which bacteria use CO2 as an input to produce the raw materials for bioplastics and proteins.

Microbiologist Detmer Sipkema has been awarded an ENW-M grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for innovative, fundamental research.

Environmental technologist Annemiek ter Heijne of Wageningen University & Research has been awarded a grant through the NWO Open Competition Domain Science - M (Weave), together with researchers from the University of Antwerp.

In Indonesia, the dugong appears to be concentrated in specific regions, while bycatch in fishing nets is a major cause of death and few young animals are observed.

An international team of scientists led by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has commenced a study to investigate how and why yeast cells die - and, especially, how to delay that process.

In a trial on the effects of lower protein levels in the ration, milk production and feed intake were hardly affected by a moderate reduction in protein content.

Microbiologist John van der Oost has received an ERC Proof of Concept grant to further develop a promising CRISPR-based approach to cancer treatment.

Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific brain areas using a new technique.

In the sleep lab of Martin Dresler, scientists work every day to piece together the scientific puzzle of sleep.

Festive opening of a new Convergence lab: celebrating a new MRI facility and collaboration between EUR and Erasmus MC Although the new MRI scanner of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus MC has b

Since 2020, Delft Bioengineering Institute (BEI) organizes a cross-campus call for interdisciplinary research projects in the field of bioengineering.

A large international study has provided new insights into how genetic factors contribute to various mental disorders.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Synergy Grants. Three researchers involved in the successful applications are employed at TU Delft.

Two consortium projects involving researchers from Radboud University have received funding from NWO.

By analyzing brain waves, researchers at Radboud University - including neuroscientist Thirza Dado - have managed to reconstruct, with surprising accuracy, images that test subjects were viewing.

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded 149 experienced researchers, eight of whom are from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC, affiliation VU, with a Vidi grant.