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• Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth

  A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly from birth.

• Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system

  An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.

• Student nurses scoop prestigious awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/nursing-times-awards-leicester

  Student Nurses Daud Malida and Lily Scott, from the University of Leicester, have won Student Nursing Times Awards

• Leicester researchers shed new light on extragalactic event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/researchers-shed-light-extragalactic-event

  University of Leicester scientists discover that a Fast X-ray Transient (FXT) called EP250108a is the result of a massive star exploding.

• Exosens invests £1m to propel space research and innovation for the METEOR programme in partnership with Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/exosens

  Exosens has worked with University of Leicester academics for more than 25 years, on projects such as the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) instrument the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission

• Channels Receptors and Signalling

  https://le.ac.uk/mcb/research/channels-receptors-and-signalling

  Find out more about Channels, Receptors and Signalling research at the University of Leicester.

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• Prabhleen sets her sights on breaking down language barriers for Leicester’s new mums

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/nhs-midwifery

  As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service, here we take a look at a story from Prabhleen Mann, who qualified in 2022 as a midwife from the University of Leicester.