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Lancaster University is to host online the 50th Anniversary Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology from July 7-9 2021.This year’s theme is 'Ageing Past, Present and Future: Innovation and Change' and so far there have…

Today the European Research Council (ERC) announced which top European researchers deserve an Advanced Grant. With these prestigious research mandates, the European Union is investing 507 million euros in groundbreaking research this…

Researchers at Ghent University succeeded in building a new type of shock absorbers which can be reused over a thousand times and become more efficient the faster the shock they absorb.When guard rails or helmets absorb large shocks, they…

More than 12% Belgian adults take antidepressants every day, making Belgium the seventh highest consumer of antidepressants of all OECD countries. In a new review, Ghent University researchers highlight that while much is known about the…

The growing population and the rising standard of living pose great ecological challenges for our society: from climate change to littering of the oceans to dwindling agricultural land and raw materials. One goal of the bioeconomy is to…

American pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb will be building a new (CAR-T) cell therapy facility in the Oegstgeest part of the Leiden Bio Science Park. The company will manufacture and develop CAR T-cell therapy for patients with…

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to six Leiden researchers. It awards these significant grants to established principal investigators for ground-breaking, high-risk research.This year’s grants have been…

The human immune defense is based on the ability of white blood cells to accurately identify disease-causing pathogens and to initiate a defense reaction against them. The immune defense is able to recall the pathogens it has encountered…

For the nineteenth annual Imagine Cup, two million students from 163 countries, who participated in the 2021 Imagine Cup, took the challenge to bring an idea to life that tackles a local or global issue in one of four competition…

The team is trying to solve a hundred-year-old mystery of physics with the help of small gold spheres and extremely low temperatures. The observation of tiny gravitational forces between vibrating spheres may solve the mystery.The highly…