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• Easter eggs hot cross buns and the microorganisms that help create them

  Date: 12 Apr 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/easter-eggs-hot-cross-buns-and-the-microorganisms-that-help-create-them

  With supermarket shelves filled with chocolate at this time of year, little thought goes into how the humble cocoa bean eventually becomes the...

• Report reveals that falls are now the most common type of major trauma in England and Wales

  Date: 6 Apr 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/report-reveals-that-falls-are-now-the-most-common-type-of-major-trauma-in-england-and-wales

  Professor Tim Coats (pictured), from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, has highlighted the need to rethink the organisation and training...

• 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...

• Inactive adults urged to get moving to avoid developing type 2 diabetes

  Date: 31 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/inactive-adults-told-to-2018get-moving2019

  People in Leicestershire are being ‘urged to get moving or risk jeopardising their health’, after research revealed adults in the county are among...

• Leicester Professor elected Chairman of the Board of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

  Date: 29 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-professor-elected-chairman-of-the-board-of-the-british-journal-of-anaesthesia

  Professor David Lambert (pictured) of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences has been elected to Chair the Board of the British Journal of...

• Study provides further evidence that statins could prevent blood clots in the veins

  Date: 28 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/study-provides-further-evidence-that-statins-could-prevent-blood-clots-in-the-veins

  Further evidence has been found by researchers from the Universities of Leicester and Bristol to suggest statins could “significantly reduce” the...

• Expert opinions cover British Summer Time and Henry VIIIs six wives

  Date: 23 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/expert-opinions-cover-british-summer-time-and-henry-viiis-six-wives

  PhD students Liz Round and Katie Bridger, from the School of History, Politics and International Relations, debate Lucy Worsley’s ‘Six Wives’...

• Event to showcase leading tuberculosis research

  Date: 21 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/event-to-showcase-leading-tuberculosis-research

  World TB Day, falling on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and to promote...

• Leicester DNA research presented to House of Commons Science and Technology Committee

  Date: 15 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-dna-research-presented-to-house-of-commons-science-and-technology-committee

  Written evidence from the University of Leicester about the future of DNA research in the UK has been presented to the House of Commons Science...

• Lecture series launched in memory of eminent microbiologist

  Date: 14 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/lecture-series-launched-in-memory-of-eminent-microbiologist

  A pioneering cellular microbiologist from the Pasteur Institute in Paris will deliver the inaugural lecture of the University of Leicester’s...