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• Ancient skeleton provides the earliest evidence of a pet cat in Kazakhstan

  Date: 8 Jul 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/cat-skull

  Uncovered in an urban settlement in Dzhankent, Kazakhstan, the analysis of the ancient animal skeleton shows this to be the first domesticated cat...

• Dr Pratik Choudhary to join world-leading Leicester Diabetes Centre

  Date: 20 May 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/pratik-choudhary

  The world-leading Leicester Diabetes Centre has announced that Dr Pratik Choudhary is to join its team of experts as a Professor in type 1...

• 35 years since we changed the world

  Date: 11 Mar 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/march/11-dna35

  The discovery of DNA genetic fingerprinting at the University of Leicester was a world-changing event and a Eureka moment for the scientist...

• £3.7 million grant for multi-disciplinary single-molecule research

  Date: 3 Dec 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/03-splicing

  The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has awarded more than three million pounds to the University of Leicester,...

• Over £20 million government award marks Midlands’ bio-economy strengths

  Date: 23 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/24-bbsrc-dtps

  A consortium of Midlands research-active universities, including the University of Leicester, has just been awarded research studentships worth...

• Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene

  Date: 13 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-thames-molluscs

  In the last few decades, the life of London’s River Thames has been transformed.

• Up to 1 in 3 of older people with schizophrenia might have undiagnosed diabetes

  Date: 2 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/03-diabetes-mental-health

  Researchers linked with the University of Leicester have found high rates of diabetes in schizophrenia which is often overlooked.

• Genomic sequencing confirms breast cancer link between Leicester sisters

  Date: 26 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-sisters-genome

  Two Leicester sisters who had their entire genomes sequenced in the hope of finding answers to their family history of breast cancer have learnt...

• £5 million grant for health science PhD students

  Date: 15 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/16-wellcome-grant

  The University of Leicester has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of over £5 million.

• Celebrating 35 years of DNA fingerprinting

  Date: 8 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-celebrating-35-years-of-dna-fingerprinting

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