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• 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...

• Future 100: Leicester seeks next generation of world-changing researchers

  Date: 02/02/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/future-100

  The University of Leicester has today (Wednesday) called for the next generation of world-changing researchers to be part of its Future 100.

• Biology unlikely to drive ethnic differences in COVID-19 risk for healthcare workers, study finds

  Date: 22/12/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/covid-biology

  The differences in COVID-19 infection risk between ethnic minority healthcare workers and their White colleagues is likely due to home and work...

• Fossil study sheds light on ancient water-to-land transition

  Date: 06/12/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/ostracod

  Palaeobiologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of a major group of marine animals making the transition to estuaries, more than 400 million...

• Leicester’s Centenary Scholars celebrate role in University’s first Century

  Date: 01/12/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/centenary-scholar

  Centenary Scholars celebrated their key role in the University of Leicester’s 100th birthday celebrations at a special event on Wednesday.

• New approach provides potential vaccine and treatment for Alzheimer’s

  Date: 16/11/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/tapas

  A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease – and also vaccinate against it – has been developed by a team of UK and German...

• Juno peers deep into Jupiter’s colourful belts and zones

  Date: 28/10/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/juno-belts-zones

  Leicester study of data captured in orbit around Jupiter has revealed new insights into what’s happening deep beneath the gas giant’s distinctive...