In 2020, research groups from Wageningen University & Research and Delft University of Technology received an NWO-subsidy for a new research facility to study mixed microbial communities: UNLOCK. With the official opening coming up in autumn 2022, UNLOCK is almost ready to unlock (new) microbial potential. How does UNLOCK envision…
Unlike what might have been expected, COVID-19 itself was not the main cause of worries expressed, but rather issues associated with possible lack of availability of food staples in the cities due to lockdown measures in force, and impact on the poor and vulnerable, with the latter being amplified by…
Do we have an opportunity to redesign our feeding practices? Background Early facts have shown that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is associated and might be exacerbated under conditions of obesity and its comorbidities, another pandemic that we have been facing already for years 1. To date, the former affects nearly…
