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A personal touch of Carine van der Vleuten
20 September 2018In order to promote interaction amongst colleagues within RIMLS, we have a ‘personal touch’ series setting employees in the spotlight. A light-hearted manner to learn about the colleagues you know and those you don’t! This week: Carine van der Vleuten.
Muscle fibrosis in the soft palate: delivery of cells, growth factors and anti-fibrotics
30 August 2018Hans Von den Hoff, recently published an article in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews together with Willeke Daamen and Toin van Kuppevelt, all from the theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine.
Super-resolution correlative light and electron microscopy: Spotlight on the cells’ ultrastructure!
28 August 2018Researchers from the Dept. of Cell Biology, theme Nanomedicine, and the ‘Microscopy Imaging Center’ (MIC, a Radboudumc Technology Center), recently developed and optimized a pipeline for correlative imaging using super-resolution (SR) microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
A personal touch of Maaike van Bergen
23 August 2018In order to promote interaction amongst colleagues within RIMLS, we have a ‘personal touch’ series setting employees in the spotlight. A light-hearted manner to learn about the colleagues you know and those you don’t! This week: Maaike van Bergen.
Microscopic imaging pierces the “black box” of cancer bone metastasis
21 August 2018Peter Friedl, theme Cancer development and immunce defense, and colleagues, have engineered a system allowing microscopic monitoring and imaging of cancer that has spread to the bone in mice so they can better understand and develop treatment for bone metastasis in humans.
Brain specific mutations may only explain sporadic Alzheimer's disease in very few cases
20 August 2018Alexander Hoischen, theme Infectious diseases and global health, and colleagues studied brain- and blood-DNA of sporadic early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients, for somatic mutations in the known AD genes.
Kidney filter injury further elucidated
20 August 2018Tom Nijenhuis, theme Renal disorders, and colleagues elucidated a novel mechanism that links activity of the calcium-conducting ion channel TRPC6 to structural injury of the kidney filter epithelial cell, via the calcium-dependent protease calpain-1.
Poster prize Lars Damen at 10th European Elastin Meeting
17 August 2018At the 10th European Elastin Meeting, Lars Damen, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine, received the early-stage researcher award for his poster entitled “Development of tools to study the sulfation pattern of heparan sulfate involved in elastic fiber biology”.
Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds grant for Rick Wansink and Frank Walboomers
23 July 2018Rick Wansink, theme Nanomedicine, and Frank Walboomers, theme Reconstructive and regenerative medicine, have been awarded a 250.000 EUR grant of the Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds towards the study and elucidation of myotonic dystrophy, in a project entitled: Harmful RNA in myotonic dystrophy.
A personal touch of Anglita Yanti Setiasti
12 July 2018In order to promote interaction amongst colleagues within RIMLS, we have a ‘personal touch’ series setting employees in the spotlight. A light-hearted manner to learn about the colleagues you know and those you don’t! This week: Anglita Yanti Setiasti
Biodegradable nanoreactors demonstrate ROS shielding in human-complex-I-deficient fibroblasts
9 July 2018Researchers of the Radboudumc and colleagues have successfully developed enzyme-loaded polymersomal nanoreactors capable of undergoing cellular integration in a controlled fashion and, subsequently, function as synthetic organelles.
Veterinary drug can prevent outbreaks of malaria and Zika in humans
5 July 2018Drugs that protect pets against ticks and fleas can also be used to prevent outbreaks of malaria, Zika and dengue fever in humans. This was the conclusion of an article by scientists from TropIQ Health Sciences, together with English and American colleagues, and published in the journal PNAS.
A personal touch of Renske van den Bijgaart
5 July 2018In order to promote interaction amongst colleagues within RIMLS, we have a ‘personal touch’ series setting employees in the spotlight. A light-hearted manner to learn about the colleagues you know and those you don’t! This week: Renske van den Bijgaart.
