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Recalibrating your academic compass this summer

The summer break offers academics more than rest – it’s a rare opportunity to pause, reflect, and realign. Isabelle Kohler shares how a quieter pace can help you recalibrate your academic compass and make intentional choices for the year ahead.

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Activating ‘reserve genes’ for gene therapy

Reactivated genes can compensate for other defective genes in hereditary blood disorders, Dutch researchers show in the journal Blood.

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Catalyst-substrate couple in the spotlight

With the high-tech laser facility of HFML-FELIX, researchers succeeded in capturing a catalyst ‘in the act’ of catalysing a Michael addition, as they show in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Exploring Academia with Isabelle

  • Recalibrating your academic compass this summer

  • Science communication: your pathway to broader impact

  • When your PhD becomes your identity

  • Cutting language support is cutting the future of the Dutch research landscape

  • Is there a real-world gap in PhD training?

More from Isabelle

  • Engineered sampling systems ensure perfect product protection

  • Developing a fit-for-purpose bioprocess film

  • Pioneering Sensor Technology Helps Solve Biopharma Challenges

  • Cytiva launches first formulation system to enable end-to-end clinical and commercial manufacturing of lipid nanoparticle medicines

  • HOF Freeze-Thaw Unit Pharma – Next Generation

  • Single-Use Technology in Biopharma: Advancing Process Efficiency with Hamilton’s Innovative Range of Single-Use Sensors

  • Increasing process efficiency with X-platform bioreactors by Cytiva

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