The detailed knowledge we have of a small number of viruses conceals the fact that we know nothing or hardly anything about the vast majority of them. More genetic research is needed to map the origin and evolution of viruses Thorough exploration of the viral world...
NWO-ENW decided to give a computing grant of 4 Million CPU hours per year for two years to WeNMR which allows to maximise the impact of the HADDOCK services. SURFSara will provide the resources. HADDOCK already serves an international community, but it is also central to the...
Utrecht biologists are awarded a prize by the prestigious American National Academy of Sciences. They will receive the Cozzarelli Prize for their publication in PNAS in 2019, in which they unravel the evolutionary history of a central protein complex in cell division. That was announced by PNAS on March 10. The Cozzarelli...
Cancer mutations can be caused by common gut bacteria carried by many people. This was demonstrated by researchers from the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) and Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. By exposing cultured human mini-guts to a particular strain of Escherichia coli bacteria, they uncovered that...
Bioinformatics is now a mature and thriving research field, indispensable in addressing life science research challenges....