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• 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.

• More than 50 years of Leicester in space

  Date: 4 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/05-more-than-50-years-of-leicester-in-space

  In World Space Week we reflect on the University of Leicester’s long history of making out of this world discoveries.

• 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...

• Multi-million investment in Space Park Leicester takes another step forward

  Date: 2 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/03-space-park-leicester-planning-application

  Planning application submitted for the first phase of Space Park Leicester – the pioneering project to establish an ambitious new...

• Earth observation research project tackling forest degradation shortlisted for award

  Date: 2 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/3-earth-observation-research-project-tackling-forest-degradation-shortlisted-for-award

  Earth observation research project tackling forest degradation shortlisted for award - Earth-imaging satellite company Planet has announced...

• Research aims to improve reading for older people

  Date: 2 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/3-university-of-leicester-research-aims-to-improve-reading-for-older-people

  A University of Leicester project examining how the effects of ageing impact on our ability to read has received £200K funding

• 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.