News search

Filters applied:

• Biological Sciences

Showing 1-10 of 186 results

• University launches pioneering new centre to study bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria

  Date: 16/05/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/martha-clokie

  A pioneering new centre to study bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria has officially launched at The University of Leicester.

• A study by a Leicester scientist has answered the 100-year-old question about how chromosomes get their iconic X-shape

  Date: 20/04/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/chromosome-x-shape

  A team of researchers led by Professor Daniel Panne at the University of Leicester and Dr Benjamin Rowland at the Netherlands Cancer Institute...

• Pint of Science festival returns to Leicester

  Date: 19/04/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/pint-of-science

  Tickets have launched for the world’s largest festival of public science talks, which will see more than 20 scientists take to the stage in venues...

• Pioneering vascular research receives major boost from the British Heart Foundation

  Date: 30/03/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/professor-bown

  The British Heart Foundation has awarded nearly £900,000 to a University of Leicester professor to continue his pioneering heart valve research.

• Attenborough Arts Centre Presents: ‘altered’ an exhibition by Tony Heaton

  Date: 15/03/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/tony-heaton

  Tony Heaton: altered 24 March – 25 June 2023, Gallery 1 With the arrival of spring, Attenborough Arts Centre is proud to launch an exciting new...

• Researcher lands £250k funding to continue investigation into DNA damage and its link to cancer

  Date: 10/03/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/amanda-chaplin

  A university researcher has been awarded a prestigious prize to continue her cutting-edge work to understand how the body responds to DNA damage...

• Animals’ ‘sixth sense’ more widespread than previously thought

  Date: 22/02/2023 16:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/animal-magnetic

  A study using fruit flies, led by researchers at The Universities of Leicester and Manchester, suggests the animal world’s ability to sense a...

• University of Leicester professor speaks to Government Select Committee about alternative to antibiotics

  Date: 21/02/2023 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/martha-clokie

  University of Leicester’s Professor of Microbiology Martha Clokie, spoke to MPs about the potential use of phages to fight bacterial infections.

• Phage film receives UK debut at University of Leicester

  Date: 27/05/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/salt-in-my-soul-screening

  More than 100 researchers, clinicians, and members of the public from across the UK gathered at the University of Leicester for the screening of...

• 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.