Plants are sessile organisms that deal with their -sometimes adverse- environment in well-regulated ways. Chromatin remodeling involving SWI/SNF2-type ATPases is thought to be an important epigenetic mechanism for the regulation of gene expression in different developmental programs and for integrating …

Quantified Self (QS) is een internationale beweging van makers en gebruikers van technologie voor zelfmeting van lichamelijke gegevens. Op het moment heeft iedereen de vrije keuze om gebruik te maken van - steeds meer betaalbare - sensortechnologie om zo informatie over het eigen lichaam te verkrijgen, …

De afgelopen dertig jaar zijn we in Nederland actief met het ontwikkelen van energiezuinige huizen, zowel nieuwbouw als renovatie. De laatste jaren begint het serieuze vormen aan te nemen: de overheid heeft ambities uitgezet, convenanten worden afgesloten, subsidies beschikbaar gesteld en de regelgeving …

Are we at the eve of a transformation in our economic system? “Yes”, according to several visionary scientists and policymakers. They predict the rise of an economy that is based on biological materials, the so-called bio-based economy. The key challenge is that due to several socio-economic developments, …

The maturing field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) results in long-lived deployments that produce large amounts of sensor data. Lightweight online on-mote processing may improve the usage of their limited resources, such as energy, by transmitting only unexpected sensor data (anomalies). We detect …

Common cloning is often associated with instability of certain classes of DNA. Here we report on IS1 transposition as possible source of such instability. During the cloning of Arabidopsis thaliana gene into commercially available vector maintained in widely used Escherichia coli host the insertion of …

BACKGROUND: Long-term survival of renal transplant recipients (RTR) has not improved over the past 20 yr. The question rises to what extent lifestyle factors play a role in post-transplant weight gain and its associated risks after transplantation. METHODS: Twenty-six RTR were measured for body weight, …

Centre of Expertise Energy.Dag van de valorisatie 2013 op 11 juni.

The possibilities of balancing gas supply and demand with a green gas supply chain were analyzed. The considered supply chain is based on co-digestion of cow manure and maize, the produced biogas is upgraded to (Dutch) natural gas standards. The applicability of modeling yearly gas demand data in a geographical …