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ERC Starting Grant for AMOLF group leader Jeroen van Zon
AMOLF group leader Jeroen van Zon has received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant. Jeroen van Zon will use his grant to start a research program on the role of stochastic…
Award for bio-art proposal together with AMOLF
On December 6, 2012, one of the three Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Awards (DA4GA) was granted to a bio-art proposal, Living Mirror, that will be carried out in collaboration…
How does a bacterium pack a 1.5 millimeters long circular chromosome into a cylindrical container of just 2 micrometers long and 1 micrometer wide?
This is a question that has occupied microbiologists for decades, but like many questions surrounding chromosomes it is difficult to tackle experimentally because of the small size of the bacterium…
A microtubule-based molecular switch determines the orientation of cell divison in plant stem cells
In order to create an organ like the plant root from a single niche of pluripotent cells, plants must control the orientation of the division plane. If all divisions were transverse…
