Medical research

Predicting and preventing serious COVID-19 symptoms

Scientists in Leiden are looking for signals in blood samples to predict whether patients will develop serious COVID-19 symptoms or not. Based on that knowledge, they will be able to propose targeted therapies to prevent ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Lab-on-a-chip may help identify new treatments for liver disease

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)—the accumulation of liver fat in people who drink little or no alcohol—is increasingly common around the world, and in the United States, it affects between 30 and 40 percent ...