It is always great when a plan comes together, especially if it happens all at once. Rocio Arreguín Campos developed a quick and easy-to-use diagnostic tool for malaria. Together with her boss, Bart van Grinsven, she successfully tested the device in Brazil. Read their story about sensors, malaria...
Artificial intelligence can become trustworthy in medicine if trained on high-quality data from a sufficiently large and divers patient population. But what happens when data is scarce because a condition or trait is extremely rare? Michel Dumontier and his team are addressing this by combining real...
Imagine living on an island that loses about 90% of its land area due to natural disasters. How would you ensure there is enough space and food for yourself and your offspring? Would you become aggressive? Read how Leon Claessens and his colleagues figured out that in such cases, nature will promote...
Imagine having a healthy weight and still suffering a heart attack or stroke. Systems biologist Femke Smit is investigating the relationship between weight and health and is making some surprising discoveries. This week, together with her international colleagues, she is publishing her research in...
Compress the electrical energy from 2-3 large wind turbines and methane into a one-meter-long tube, and you’ll produce green hydrogen and other feedstocks for the chemical industry, all without releasing any CO2. Read about green hydrogen research at Maastricht University!
Healthy school lunches in primary schools ensure that children consume more vegetables, both at school and at home. This is supported by research led by Ilse van Lier. Deloitte has utilised her findings to demonstrate that school lunches lead to healthier adults, resulting in reduced healthcare...
Conspiracy theories about pandemics are timeless and have followed the same patterns over the centuries. Timo Greve and Joris Roosen's research into pandemic conspiracy theories demonstrates this.
Sebastián Ayala Ruano focused his Systems Biology master’s thesis research on the microbiome of wastewater. His work resulted in a model that predicts how microorganisms in the contaminated water behave and interact.
Lions do swim, but never has a lion been seen swimming a distance stretching over a kilometre. This remarkable observation by nature conservationists reached over ten million people. “People resonate with this kind of animal news," assistant professor Christopher O’Bryan says.
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