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  • Mike Gerards co-writes paper

    MaCSBio's Mike Gerards has co-written a paper about the differences in strength and timing of the mtDNA bottleneck between zebrafish germline and non-germline cells, which has been published on Science Direct

    Mike Gerards
  • MaCSBio's Michael Lenz's Article published

    Principal components analysis (PCA) is a common unsupervised method for the analysis of gene expression microarray data, providing information on the overall structure of the analyzed dataset. 

    Michael Lenz
  • The consequences of Brexit for the social security?

    It has eventually happened. The United Kingdom will leave the European Union. It looked briefly as though the British people would vote for “stay”, but a majority of the voters of the referendum that was held in the United Kingdom wants to leave the European Union. At this stage, it is too early to...

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  • Honorary doctor Henk Hofland has died

    Journalist, columnist and writer H.J.A. (Henk) Hofland has passed away at the age of 88. In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from Maastricht University

    Portret Henk Hofland
  • How to make penalty shootouts fairer

    Penalty shootouts in football could be made fairer by switching the order in which the penalties are taken, according to UM researcher Mehmet Ismail and New York University’s Professor Steven Brams.

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  • ITEM investigates effects for border regions

    This year, the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility/ ITEM will start investigating the effects of certain national and European laws and regulations for border regions.

    Grenseffectenbeoordling / Cross border impact assessment
  • Bert Smeets: Research pays off

    MaCSBio's director of education Bert Smeets has been interviewed for the Dutch serie: 'Research Loont' (translation: 'Research pays off') about the unraveling of genetic causes of hereditary metabolic disease among children.

    Bert Smeets
  • MaCSBio's Gökhan Ertaylan's Article published

    Neurogenesis is the process by which new neurons are generated from neural stem cells and progenitor cells which takes place continuously throughout our life. In this work the interdisciplinary team with Gökhan Ertaylan of MaCSBio has been collaborating, uncovers a function for Prox1 gene that...

    Gokhan Ertaylan