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• Decoding gigantic insect genome could help tackle devastating locust crises

  Date: 19 Nov 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/locusts

  A ‘game changing’ study deciphering the genetic material of the desert locust by researchers at the University of Leicester, could help combat the...

• Leicester professor helps combat worldwide diabetes-related chronic kidney disease

  Date: 10 Nov 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/diabetes-kidney-disease

  A University of Leicester-based Professor has helped draft guidelines that will help improve global outcomes for a diabetes-related complication.

• Blood cancer breakthrough offers clues for tailored patient treatment

  Date: 19 Jul 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/blood-cancer-breakthrough-offers-clues-for-tailored-patient-treatment

  Patients with blood cancer could be offered a tailored course of treatment in the future, after Leicester academics successfully trialled the use...

• Signs of early heart failure revealed in patients with type 2 diabetes

  Date: 16 Jul 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/heart-failure-diabetes

  Adults with type 2 diabetes that have no history, signs or symptoms of heart problems have been shown to have severely limited exercise capacity.

• Ancient skeleton provides the earliest evidence of a pet cat in Kazakhstan

  Date: 8 Jul 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/cat-skull

  Uncovered in an urban settlement in Dzhankent, Kazakhstan, the analysis of the ancient animal skeleton shows this to be the first domesticated cat...

• Dr Pratik Choudhary to join world-leading Leicester Diabetes Centre

  Date: 20 May 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/pratik-choudhary

  The world-leading Leicester Diabetes Centre has announced that Dr Pratik Choudhary is to join its team of experts as a Professor in type 1...

• 35 years since we changed the world

  Date: 11 Mar 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/march/11-dna35

  The discovery of DNA genetic fingerprinting at the University of Leicester was a world-changing event and a Eureka moment for the scientist...

• Up to 1 in 3 of older people with schizophrenia might have undiagnosed diabetes

  Date: 2 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/03-diabetes-mental-health

  Researchers linked with the University of Leicester have found high rates of diabetes in schizophrenia which is often overlooked.

• Genomic sequencing confirms breast cancer link between Leicester sisters

  Date: 26 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-sisters-genome

  Two Leicester sisters who had their entire genomes sequenced in the hope of finding answers to their family history of breast cancer have learnt...

• £5 million grant for health science PhD students

  Date: 15 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/16-wellcome-grant

  The University of Leicester has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of over £5 million.