Bio-art introduces text in fungal DNA

Netherlands Proteomics Centre

The Netherlands Proteomics Centre is collaborating with the UK artist Charlotte Jarvis on a new bio-art project called ‘Blighted by Kenning’. The project was presented at the NPC Progress Meeting on 7 February 2012. The completed project will be exhibited at The Big Shed in Suffolk in August and after this in the Netherlands. Blighted by Kenning is funded by the NPC and the Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI).

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Combination of medicines might benefit colon cancer patients

Cancer Genomics Centre

Researchers of the Cancer Genomics Centre have discovered that colon cancer patients with mutations in the BRAF gene might benefit from a combination of existing medicines. They published their results last 27 January 2012 in Nature. For colon cancer patients with this mutation, to date no effective medicine was available.

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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 Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology and the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre published an article with a simulation of energy conversion in the human body.

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Support for doctors on genetic issues

CSG Centre for Society and the Life Sciences (CSG)

More applications of genetics and genomics are finding their way into the daily practice of first-line healthcare. In many cases, these professionals admit knowing very little about the latest developments in genomics and not having the skills to use these newest applications. The CSG Centre for Society and the Life Sciences (CSG) launched the website 'Huisarts en Genetica' (GP and Genetics) to support the doctors on their genetics related questions.

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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, 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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