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• Could human tissue be used by researchers in place of animal models

  Date: 11 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/could-human-tissue-be-used-by-researchers-in-place-of-animal-models

  Professor Peter Bradding from the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation is involved in a research project examining how to expand the...

• Curiosity disproves old idea of Mars as a simple basaltic planet

  Date: 9 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/curiosity-disproves-2018old-idea-of-mars-as-a-simple-basaltic-planet2019

  As NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) celebrates four years on the Red Planet Leicester planetary scientist Professor John Bridges recounts the...

• Could large space missions help to unite world powers

  Date: 8 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/could-large-space-missions-help-to-unite-world-powers

  Professor John Bridges from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been quoted in an article in The Independent discussing the US...

• Pokmon Go helps highlight Leicesters inventive approach to communications

  Date: 5 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/pokemon-go-helps-to-highlight-leicesters-inventive-approach-to-communications

  The Pokémon Go craze has helped millions of people around the world to ease the Type 2 diabetes burden by walking and catching digital monsters.

• Study finds veins on Mars were formed by evaporating ancient lakes

  Date: 5 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/study-finds-veins-on-mars-were-formed-by-evaporating-ancient-lakes

  Mineral veins found in Mars’s Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient Martian lakes, a new study has shown.

• GPS in space research brings autonomous interplanetary travel closer to reality

  Date: 4 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/201cgps-in-space201d-research-brings-autonomous-interplanetary-travel-closer-to-reality

  An accurate method for spacecraft navigation takes a leap forward today as the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and our University publish a...

• Environmental insights from the GHOST in the machine

  Date: 3 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/environmental-insights-from-the-ghost-in-the-machine

  An instrument co-designed by University of Leicester scientists has spent the past year successfully gathering data on how greenhouse gases are...

• The Bulletin Leicester named top 10 city to live and work

  Date: 2 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/the-bulletin-2013-leicester-named-top-10-city-to-live-and-work

  In this episode of The Bulletin from the University of Leicester News Centre: Leicester among best 10 cities in the UK, according to new...

• A change in Leicesters DNA Research Professional features new research institutes

  Date: 1 Aug 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/a-change-in-leicester2019s-dna-research-professional-features-new-research-institutes

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise Professor Iain Gillespie (pictured) have...

• Expert opinions cover Airbnb and Rio the Turkish coup Jupiters Great Red Spot the refugee crisis and consumer justice

  Date: 29 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-airbnb-and-rio-the-turkish-coup-and-jupiters-great-red-spot

  Henrik Melin from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has written a Staff Blog discussing the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.