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‘I feel guilty’: Japanese
student in Leiden
Leiden
University would like to express our sincere sympathy to
students and staff who have been affected by the earthquake
and tsunami in Japan. On Tuesday 22 March there is a meeting
for Japanese students and staff. Mari Hosho, an exchange
student from Japan, studying psychology at Leiden University,
reflects on the disaster that has struck her homeland.
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Fire came to Europe later
than was thought
Early
hominins probably lived in Europe for hundreds of
thousands of years before using fire to alleviate the winter
cold, to cook or to make tools. It was only in the period
between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago that the first finds
were made that indicate that people had the ability to control
fire.
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Testosterone can make
adolescents impulsive
Everyone
is familiar with the phenomenon: teenagers simply do whatever
comes into their head. Psychologist Jiska Peper from the Brain
and Development Lab thinks that this type of impulsive
behaviour is linked to the quantity of testosterone in the
adolescent brain.
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Injecting zebrafish at high
speed
Zebrafish
are extremely suitable for studying tuberculosis. Leiden
researchers have succeeded in automating critical experimental
steps using zebrafish embryos; their findings appear on the
February 16 issue of the scientific journal PLoS ONE . Their
work will enable a faster, better understanding of
tuberculosis progression, and how it may be
halted.
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