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CWI PhD student Jasmijn Baaijens wins Best Talk Award at the ISMB-HitSeq conference

Jasmijn Baaijens, PhD student from CWI’s Life Sciences and Health group, has won the Best Talk Award at ISMB-HitSeq, the world's leading conference on high-throughput genomics.

CWI PhD student Jasmijn Baaijens wins Best Talk Award at the ISMB-HitSeq conference

Instable blood supply may help healthy cells compete with tumor cells

Researchers of CWI’s Scientific Computing group have found that instabilities in the blood supply in cancerous tissue can, surprisingly, lead to a less favorable environment for tumor cells. Their findings shed light …

Instable blood supply may help healthy cells compete with tumor cells

Comparing medical images better

Together with the radiation oncology department of AMC, Peter Bosman of CWI’s Life Sciences and Health group has been awarded 1.4 million euros for a project in NWO’s Open Technology Programme for …

Comparing medical images better

A puzzle with a million pieces: assembling viral genomes from sequencing data

Researchers from CWI’s Life Science and Health group have developed a new computational tool, SAVAGE, for reconstructing the genomes of the different virus strains that affect an infected person. SAVAGE makes it …

A puzzle with a million pieces:  assembling viral genomes from sequencing data

Researchers develop robot friend to support children

A team of researchers led by CWI will investigate the use of robots in order to emotionally support children that suffer from cancer. The robots must act as a personal, social friend …

Researchers develop robot friend to support children

PhD student Lisanne Rens wins H. D. Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Award

CWI PhD student Lisanne Rens has been awarded the 2017 H. D. Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Award. Every two years, the Society for Mathematical Biology gives out this reward in recognition of a …

PhD student Lisanne Rens wins H. D. Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Award

Cells’ own contractions stimulate growth orientation

During the growth of embryos cells align with forces from the surrounding tissue. These forces originate from differences in growth rates, muscle contractions or gravity. Mathematicians at the CWI research centre in …

Cells’ own contractions stimulate growth orientation

Shape instructs future fate of cells in Nature Communications

How does a cell make a decision about his future, on what type of cell it will be after the cell division? This process is described by Roeland Merks and Cong Chen …

Shape instructs future fate of cells in Nature Communications