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• Researchers find alternative way to extract high purity silver from used solar panels

  Date: 13/09/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/bsf-solar-cells

  A a new way of extracting valuable metals from end-of-life solar panels has been developed.

• Clearing 2022: Brilliant Bianca grasps second chance at university in Leicester

  Date: 16/08/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/clearing-bianca

  Psychology graduate Bianca Semczuk says choosing Leicester through Clearing “couldn’t have been a better decision”.

• New evidence traces herpes virus back almost 5,000 years

  Date: 28/07/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/herpes-genome

  Researchers have mapped the genetic structure of the herpes virus and, for the first time, traced its European origin back almost 5,000 years.

• Targeted cancer treatment could provide new hope for mesothelioma patients

  Date: 07/07/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/nero

  A new clinical trial will test whether a type of targeted cancer treatment could improve survival for people with a rare and aggressive form of...

• New partnership between Leicester’s universities offers students chance to improve skills for less

  Date: 16/06/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/pg-scholarship

  Graduates in Leicester will be able to take discounted further study at either of the city’s universities thanks to a new joint offer.

• New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years

  Date: 07/06/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/parkinsons-robot

  Researchers at the University of Leicester have created the world’s first artificial intelligence system capable of detecting Parkinson’s disease.

• Openness in animal research among UK’s best

  Date: 23/05/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leader-in-openness

  The University of Leicester has once again been named as one of the UK’s ‘Leaders in Openness’ by national body Understanding Animal Research.

• Stop the clocks: Brisk walking may slow biological ageing process, study shows

  Date: 20/04/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/walking-speed-ageing

  A new study of genetic data published today (Wednesday) of more than 400,000 UK adults has revealed a clear link between walking pace and a...

• Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean

  Date: 14/04/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/albatross-foraging

  The first large-scale study of its kind has uncovered more than 4,000 years’ worth of distinctive foraging behaviour in a species once driven to...

• Pioneering technique could unlock targeted treatments for cancer

  Date: 18/03/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/hdac-cancer

  Leicester researchers have described application of a pioneering chemical technique which could unlock ground-breaking new treatments for cancer...