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• Study reveals how dietary phosphate can increase heart disease risk

  Date: 5 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/study-reveals-how-dietary-phosphate-can-increase-heart-disease-risk

  A new study has found that high phosphate levels can cause a stress signal inside the cells that line blood vessels, leading to the release of...

• Top honours for nine influential individuals

  Date: 31 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/01-honorary-degrees

  Influential individuals from the worlds of business, art, education, and more have received honorary degrees from the University of Leicester.

• A new potential treatment pathway for cardiovascular disease

  Date: 31 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/31-trib1-research

  A collaborative study involving scientists from the University of Leicester has shown, for the first time, that a protein expressed in a subset of...

• 2 million boost for Leicester scientists to tackle hardtotreat cancers

  Date: 15 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/ps2-million-boost-for-leicester-scientists-to-tackle-hard-to-treat-cancers

  Scientists in Leicester are set to benefit from almost £2 million to look into new ways to treat lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, two types of...

• Cutting-edge science to be enhanced with new talent

  Date: 3 Apr 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/cutting-edge-science-to-be-enhanced-with-new-talent

  A research institute at our University is significantly expanding through the recruitment of fresh new talent to accelerate the impact of its...

• Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world

  Date: 14 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells

  A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains.

• Innovative pathology tests to help patients receive better treatment

  Date: 30 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/innovative-pathology-tests-to-help-patients-receive-better-treatment

  The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have made a joint award of £16m to develop...

• Researchers find alternative way to extract high purity silver from used solar panels

  Date: 13 Sep 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/bsf-solar-cells

  A a new way of extracting valuable metals from end-of-life solar panels has been developed.

• Calcium is key to age-related memory loss

  Date: 8 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/09-presynaptic-calcium

  Research in our Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour is offering new clues into how and why cognitive functions such as memory and...

• Leicestershires three universities join forces to fight blood cancer

  Date: 24 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicestershires-three-universities-join-forces-to-fight-blood-cancer

  The University of Leicester, Loughborough University and De Montfort University have joined forces to create Leicestershire UNItes in...