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• Phage film receives UK debut at University of Leicester

  Date: 27 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/salt-in-my-soul-screening

  More than 100 researchers, clinicians, and members of the public from across the UK gathered at the University of Leicester for the screening of...

• Openness in animal research among UK’s best

  Date: 23 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leader-in-openness

  The University of Leicester has once again been named as one of the UK’s ‘Leaders in Openness’ by national body Understanding Animal Research.

• Leicester to host first UK screening of acclaimed documentary

  Date: 25 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/salt-in-my-soul

  The University of Leicester will host the first UK screening of an internationally-acclaimed documentary telling the story of a young woman’s...

• Research identifies new family of marine ‘megaphages’

  Date: 21 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/marine-megaphages

  Microbiologists have identified a new family of marine megaphages which could change understanding of Earth’s carbon and nitrogen cycles.

• New cell treatment could combat ageing

  Date: 13 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/senescent-cell-clearance

  An international team of researchers have identified a new method for clearing senescent cells, which could transform treatments for ageing and...

• Wellcome boost for structural biologists

  Date: 23 Jun 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/wellcome-trust-awards

  Leicester researchers studying our molecular machinery have been awarded £3.89 million in research funding by the Wellcome Trust.

• Moles hate eating sand, Leicester research reveals

  Date: 27 Aug 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/moles

  Anyone who has had their day at the beach ruined by the sound and sensation of biting into a sandy sandwich can look to the humble mole for ways...

• £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.