New TV programme on DNA at RTL 4

CDC, CBSG, NPC, NCHA, VIRGO Consortium

From 4 Sep until 9 Oct 2011, RTL 4 showcased a six-piece series 'Lang zullen we leven' on television. (Let us live long). In this popular scientific series, TV host Geert Hoes dives into the world of DNA. He discovered in a fun and easy accessible way what's possible in the Netherlands, thanks to innovative DNA research. The programme was produced in collaboration with NGI and five Genomics Centres.

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European support for studies
linking early development and future health

Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing

With a large subsidy of the European Union, Prof Dr Eline Slagboom of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and scientific director of the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing, will study how circumstances during development and at a young age influence health at later age.

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Improved bioethanol production from cane sugar

Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation

In collaboration with colleagues at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Kluyver Centre researchers successfully altered the energetics of sucrose metabolism in bakers' yeast. By a combination of genetic modification and 'evolution in the laboratory', the ethanol yield on sucrose was increased by 11%.

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Modelling Lance Armstrong

Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology, Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre

Can scientists translate a top performance in cycle racing into a computer model? Scientists of the NCSB and the NBIC published an article with a simulation of energy conversion in the human body. They took metabolic data on Lance Armstrong to simulate the Alpe d'Huez time trial in the Tour de France of 2004, partly by making use of equations developed for NASA to simulate astronauts.

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Breakthrough towards more effective vaccines thanks to RNA

Netherlands Nutrigenomics Centre

Vaccination can be just as effective with dead bacteria as with live ones, as long as you inject them with the RNA of live bacteria. This finding was published in Nature by a team of American, French, Amsterdam and Wageningen researchers. Michael Müller, Scientific Director of the Netherlands Nutrigenomics Centre co-authored of the publication.

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