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News 2024
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05 March 2024
Wageningen opens expansion of microalgae farm: AlgaePARC 2.0
- On Tuesday 5 March, Wageningen University & Research opened AlgaePARC 2.0, an expansion of the existing microalgae farm on the Wageningen campus.... -
04 March 2024
Lower export volume and higher prices lead to limited agricultural export growth
- Dutch exports of agricultural goods (primary, unprocessed goods and secondary, processed goods) are estimated at 123.8 billion euros in 2023 (Figure... -
02 March 2024
Zooming in on microbiomes: meet the tiny predators that are vital for ecosystems
- Microbes in the soil are constantly on the move, hunting, feeding, and releasing nutrients to plants. PhD student Alejandro Berlinches de Gea studies... -
01 March 2024
Expertise on all earth systems and society in one new research group
- Wageningen University & Research has strengthened its ability to contribute to sustainable futures, considering the many global change challenges... -
01 March 2024
Zooming in on microbiomes: ‘Bacterial genes can be the building blocks for new antibiotics’
- Researchers believe bacteria still contain many more undiscovered genes and other particles that could be used for the development of medicines.... -
29 February 2024
Zooming in on microbiomes: researching the intestinal bacteria of babies
- As important as gut bacteria are to humans, they are born without them. Athanasia Ioannou is trying to discover the role breast milk plays in the... -
28 February 2024
New Research Award: Who will be named Supervisor of the Year?
- WUR celebrates its birthday on 8 March, on which occasion it will present the Research Awards. There will be recognition for team achievements,... -
27 February 2024
Increasing soil salinity: new discovery may help make crops more resilient
- Salination causes harvests to fail across the globe. Plants die, or their growth is stunted. Researchers of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)... -
27 February 2024
‘The prize money is nice, but the acknowledgement of my research matters most’
- Associate Professor Inge de Graaf received the Early Career Award for her research on the availability of groundwater on 15 February 2024. The Royal... -
26 February 2024
Commentary on study: return to evaluation of foods from their nutritional role
- Several Italian scientists based at different universities read with great interest the paper of the Epic cohort* on the incidence of multimorbidity...