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• New BHF-funded research could predict the growth of life-threatening aneurysms before it is too late

  Date: 7 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/07-aneurysms

  Research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the University of Leicester could reduce the risk of death from a life-threatening aneurysm.

• MRI research that gets to the heart of the matter

  Date: 25 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/26-mri-research-that-gets-to-the-heart-of-the-matter

  Insight into heart disease to be presented at University of Leicester’s Frank May Prize Lecture 2018 on 29 October

• Research sheds light on genetic processes underlying meningitis and gastroenteritis

  Date: 23 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/24-genetic-processes-underlying-meningitis-and-gastroenteritis

  University of Leicester researchers have developed a computer system to scan large sets of genomes in deadly pathogens

• Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing

  Date: 10 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing

  Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.

• Protecting endangered animals from illegal wildlife trade using mobile DNA sequencing

  Date: 8 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/09-illegal-wildlife-trade-conference

  University of Leicester researchers presenting innovative DNA analysis methods for testing samples to find species-of-origin at the Illegal...

• Genetic tool to predict adult heart attack risk in childhood

  Date: 8 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/08-genetic-tool-to-predict-adult-heart-attack-risk-in-childhood

  Powerful technology that paves way for early interventions to prevent heart attacks developed by international team involving Leicester researchers

• Leicester Professor co-chairs expert panel behind new recommendations for type 2 diabetes

  Date: 4 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/5-melanie-davies-co-chairs-expert-panel

  Leicester researcher co-chairs expert panel behind new EASD-ADA consensus guidelines on managing hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes.

• New study underway to find best treatment for wake-up stroke patients

  Date: 3 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/4-new-study-underway-to-find-best-treatment-for-wake-up-stroke-patients

  New study underway to find best treatment for wake-up stroke patients led by Professor Thompson Robinson, Head of Department of Cardiovascular...

• New drugs to prevent tuberculosis could be developed thanks to this novel cell wall breakthrough

  Date: 2 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/3-cell-wall-breakthrough

  Research has identified a novel regulatory mechanism, which when deactivated, results in the death of the life-threatening pathogen.

• True burden of stillbirths in Europe vastly underestimated, research shows

  Date: 26 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-true-burden-of-stillbirths-in-europe-vastly-underestimated

  True burden of stillbirths in Europe vastly underestimated