When Organoids Meet Coronaviruses: Assessing Potential COVID Drug Targets
Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers in collaboration with the group of Bart Haagmans (Erasmus MC) established an organoid biobank to search for the…
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Heart Recovery After Heart Attack Mapped in Great Detail
Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute mapped the recovery of the heart after a heart attack with great detail. They found that heart muscle cells —…
Live Capture: Researchers Develop Virus Live Stream to Study Viral Infections
Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute and Utrecht University developed an advanced technique that makes it possible to monitor a virus infection live. The researchers from…
Bad News – Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Infects Cells of the Intestine and Multiplies There
Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, and Maastricht University in the Netherlands have found that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2,…
CRISPR-HOT: New Genetic Tool Can Label Specific Genes and Cells
Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers have developed a new genetic tool to label specific genes in human organoids, or mini organs. They used…
New Repair Mechanism for Alcohol-Induced DNA Damage Discovered
Researchers of the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom, have discovered a new…
Using 10,000 Fungi to Search for New Medical Drugs
An enormous library of products derived from more than ten thousand fungi could help us find new drugs. Researchers from the group of Jeroen den…