Viruses for precision medicine

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Wageningen chemists have designed and created an artificial virus. Copying the tricks employed by viruses will soon be helping to deliver medicines more precisely to…

Salt marshes help hold back sea

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Sea levels are rising because of climate change. If the Dutch are…

Lectures at the Dreijen?

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The demise of the Dreijen university complex, on Wageningen’s hill, was heralded…

Kitty

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The story so far: Lately Vera seems to be losing her shyness.

‘We saw our first polar bear straightaway’

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Who? Marijn van der MeijWhat? Soil research for his MSc thesisWhere? Adam…

Animal rights

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Milk quotas are being scrapped in the EU from 2015. There are…

Snubbed by calendar

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I still remember clearly the first time I invited some Dutch friends…

Climate prize for Wageningen students

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Climate change is a hot topic. And there is money available for…

Career path besides tenure track

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Assistant professors who do not wish to participate in tenure track can…

‘Encourage alternatives to animal testing’

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There are many barriers to the implementation of alternatives to animal testing.…