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Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science (LIFES) to address the challenges of global data reuse
Today, an international public-private partnership of eleven forward-thinking academic and private organisations announces its joint effort to establish the Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science (LIFES). The founding partners of LIFES are the GO…
From slide to data: Botanical archive inventory
In May, the CollAction team inventoried more than 50,000 botanical slides from Wageningen University & Research. These are mostly photographs of plants in the field or in greenhouses. The team selected 3,000 slides to be included in our collection. These…
Bloody insights: Organs-on-chip ready to help snake venom research
A 3D model of imitation blood vessels will make it possible to see exactly how snake venom attacks blood vessels, without having to use laboratory animals. This new research model, called an organ-on-a-chip, was developed by a research team from Vrije…