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Nine out of ten miscarriages happen in the first three months of pregnancy. Researchers at Maastricht University Medical Center have found that in 70% of these cases, the embryo has a genetic abnormality.
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Daniëlle Zijlstra, Nils Keesmekers, and Sid Penders emerged as the winners of the AppChallenge@UM 2023 with their app proposal, MomentUM!
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PhD thesis written by Sander Paul Martijn Kramer
A growing number of mobile individuals, who take advantage of their European freedoms of movement, face a lack of comprehensive pension information. This obstacle can hinder those who need pension information the most in making well-informed... -
PhD thesis written by Alice Giannini
The idea of criminal behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is nothing new. In fact, science fiction has been dealing for decades with evil robots rebelling against humans and taking control, or with machines that go crazy and act unpredictably. Yet, it... -
Anna Harris has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million for her project ‘The Upcycled Clinic: A global ethnography of material creativity in contemporary medicine’. The project addresses the escalating issue of clinical waste.
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Five FASoS researchers have been awarded Horizon Europe grants for leading projects in the European security domain. A combined total of nearly €700,000 goes to Maastricht. The overall worth of each project amounts to €3 million.
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In Europe, particularly in the Netherlands, RegMed XB is gearing up to take on the United States, Japan and Israel in the field of regenerative medicine. ReGEN Biomedical—affiliated with Maastricht University and a spin-off of RegMed XB—is building a facility to grow human tissue that will one day...
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A stop to migration? Setting aside the nitrogen regulations? Radically countering internationalisation in higher education? Politicians regularly make great pronouncements. To what extent are these promises realistic? Dr Karin van Leeuwen, lecturer of European Political History at the Faculty of...