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• The sweet art of decorating: Bake-off stars delight University of Leicester staff with cake artistry

  Date: 9 Aug 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/bake-off-staff

  15 lucky colleagues attended a biscuit decorating masterclass hosted by three Great British Bake Off contestants

• Leicester’s Titan Krios Cryo-electron microscope helps in groundbreaking discovery

  Date: 21 Mar 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/21-cryo-electron-microscope-cte

  The Titan Krios Cryo-electron microscope, based at the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, has provided a significant part of...

• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  Date: 1 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

  Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old...

• University of Leicester Bake Off star to join Vice-Chancellor at UK technicians conference

  Date: 22 May 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/bake-off-star-vice-chancellor-technicians-conference

  The University of Leicester’s Great British Bake Off finalist will join the institution’s Vice-Chancellor at the UK’s largest conference for...

• Research shows new way lungs respond in asthma attacks

  Date: 4 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/research-shows-new-way-lungs-respond-in-asthma-attacks

  A team led by Professor Andrew Tobin (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology) and Dr Yassine Amrani (Department of Infection, Immunity and...

• UK medical sciences would have to scale back ambition if we became isolated from the European Union says academic

  Date: 21 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/uk-medical-sciences-would-have-to-2018scale-back-ambition2019-if-we-became-isolated-from-the-european-union-says-academic

  UK medical sciences may have to ‘scale back its ambition’ if Britain leaves the European Union, according to Professor Andrew Tobin...

• Five shortlisted from University of Leicester in the UK’s only awards for technicians in academia

  Date: 6 Jun 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/papin-prize-shortlist

  Five individuals and teams from the University of Leicester are in the running for Papin Prizes, dedicated to celebrating technical excellence and...

• Leicester’s showstopping chemist on his Bake-Off experiment

  Date: 11 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/josh-smalley-bake-off

  Dr Joshua Smalley speaks to the Press Office about rising to the occasion in the famous white tent

• Breakthrough study uncovers origin of plant sperm

  Date: 19 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/19-breakthrough-study-origin-plant-sperm

  A large international team of researchers has uncovered the origin of an ancient genetic mechanism needed for plant fertility

• Leicester’s Top 5 COVID research studies

  Date: 23 Mar 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/top-5-covid-research-studies

  One of the top ten Universities in the UK for COVID research has highlighted its top five research projects that have had a global impact.