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Building a facility for large-scale algae production

Artist impression of AlgaePARC

A facility for the prodcution of micro-algae will be built on the Wageningen UR Campus. The cultivated algae are a rich source of proteins for food and chemicals and could form the basis of biofuels. This unique research centre, named AlgaePARC, will be used to make the production of biomass from algae more efficient and cheaper. It is the first step in translating the good results that have been booked in laboratories, to large-scale industrial production of algae. That way the economic dependency on fossil fuels can be reduced.

In search of alternatives to oil

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Researchers of Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) regularly find new methods to produce energy, materials and chemicals from waste, be it sewage water or the inedible parts of plants. Kirsten Steinbusch will receive her doctoral degree on March 19 for developing an efficient way to derive energy from fruit, vegetable and garden waste.
Other researchers, like PhD Andres Torres Salvador, are looking for alternatives to fossil fuels by breeding plants that produce more useful ingredients for biodiesel. A combination of all these technologies should eventually make it possible to switch from an economy based on oil and coal, to a biobased economy.

Biobased Economy

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    18 March 2010

    Pork belly cuts better for environment than beef steak

    Milk, eggs, pork and chicken are friendlier for the environment than beef. This is the conclusion after examining sixteen life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of animal products. However, the margins

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    18 March 2010

    Comparing 1,200,000,000,000 base pairs

    Martien Groenen, professor of the Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, will use a European Research Grant to determine the DNA sequence of twelve different pig species. These will include European

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    18 March 2010

    GM Banana split in Uganda

    The introduction of genetically modified (GM) bananas in Uganda could meet stiff resistance from the urban population in the country, according to environmental economist Enoch Kilukwe, who obtains

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Studying at Wageningen UR

Academic and professional education

Wageningen UR offers a broad range of studies focusing on the domain ‘healthy food and living environment’. Students are stimulated to combine the natural and social sciences; from plant sciences to economics and from food ingredients technology to sociology. All studies have their roots in society and are always focused on finding solutions for societal problems.

Education is offered at various levels. Wageningen University offers academic education and the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences offers professional education. This unique combination of academic and professional education has led to a coherent system of bachelor, master and PhD programmes. On all levels academic, strategic and applied research are combined.

International orientation

There is a strong international presence at Wageningen UR. About a third of the MSc students and fifty percent of phD students are from abroad. Internationally, the university is listed in the top 200 in both the Times Higher Educational Supplement as well as in the American Newsweek.

How plant cells communicate

Arabidopsis

Wageningen UR biochemist Dolf Weijers and his German colleagues have discovered how stem cells in a plant embryo are formed. The cells communicate with one another via the transportation of a protein, reports Weijers this week in Nature.

Signal proteins discovered

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Best Dutch institution for bachelor and master courses

Wageningen University (part of Wageningen UR) is the best institution in the Netherlands to do master studies, concludes the Dutch 'Keuzegids' magazine, which compared all master institutions in the Netherlands.
The editors of Keuzegids Masters rated nineteen master courses of Wageningen University. Eighteen of those scored substantially better than the national average. It was the first time that Keuzegids compared master studies. In the magazine's yearly overview of the best bachelor courses, Wageningen University has been rated the number one university of The Netherlands for five years in a row.