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Latest news

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  Magazine highlights the new versatile (pyrolysis-)GC-Orbitrap MS The recent edition of the magazine LABinsights dedicated an article on the new Orbitrap mass spectrometer that can be linked to a pyrolysis gas...
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  New automated plant phenotyping device at WUR Shared Research Facilities (SRF) of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has recently purchased a new mobile device suitable to automatically...
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  Making healthier products more attractive with MRI scan revealing preferences During the PhD research of Irene Tijssen the Shared Research Facilities’ MRI was used to answer ‘how to make healthier products more...
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  Next Generation Sequencing reveals reference genome sequence for the rose Researchers have produced a high-quality reference rose genome sequence that will represent an essential resource for the rose community and also for...
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  Unilever makes equipment widely accessible on Wageningen Campus via Shared Research Facilities Since 2010, a number organisations and companies in and around Wageningen Campus have shared the high-quality research facilities of Wageningen...
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  NGS shows insights into evolutional losses of nitrogen-fixing rhizobium symbioses The contribution of Wageningen researchers to the Science publication: ‘Phylogenomics reveals multiple losses of nitrogen-fixing root nodule...
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  MRI brain scan reveals unexpected choice after smelling freshly baked bread Wageningen scientists drew an unexpected conclusion after experiments with odours; when smelling bread, test subjects did not choose bread more often....
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  Odours stimulate brain activity even without functional sense of smell Despite a diminished or even fully lost sense of smell, the brain continues to react to olfactory stimulation. This was shown in research by the Smell...
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  Food research with the new tribometer The Wageningen Resource magazine wrote this month about the use of the new tribometer for research into the creaminess of a product, which can help to...
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  Use of MRI in Biomarker Research in ADHD: the Impact of Nutrition The high-field MRI scanner for structural and functional MRI (fMRI) of Wageningen University & Research, Shared Research Facilities is used in the...