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• Stem cell research to help fight brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stem-cell-research-to-help-fight-brittle-bone-disease-osteogenesis-imperfecta

  A study involving Professor Raymond Dalgleish (pictured) from the Department of Genetics is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into foetuses with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which causes repeated...

• Prison rehabilitation researcher wins presenting challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/short-sentence-prison-rehabilitation-researcher-wins-presenting-challenge

  The Graduate School is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s 3 Minute Thesis competition, held on 20 May 2015. The competition featured eleven excellent presentations from both full time and part time postgraduate researchers.

• New report published to give practical steps for using surgical checklists safely

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/new-report-published-to-give-practical-steps-for-using-surgical-checklists-safely

  A new, freely accessible report led by Dr Emmilie Aveling from the Department of Health Sciences offers practical guidance to those seeking to optimise implementation of the surgical checklist.

• New heart attack genes discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-heart-attack-genes-discovered

  Scientists have discovered two new genes which are associated with a person’s risk of coronary heart disease in an international collaboration involving BHF and NIHR-funded researchers. The findings could lead to new statin-like treatments to prevent heart attacks.

• University life in the 1920s revealed through historical interview

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/university-life-in-the-1920s-revealed-through-historical-interview

  A new project organised by our University is making a number of oral history interviews with people who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries available online.

• Leicester academics message to returning British astronaut Tim Peake

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-academics2019-message-to-returning-british-astronaut-tim-peake

  Space scientists from our University have praised the successful completion of British astronaut Tim Peake’s six month mission aboard the International Space Station.

• Winner of Leicester competition to receive photograph from space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/winner-of-leicester-competition-to-receive-photograph-from-space

  Children around the UK are invited to enter a competition organised by the University's National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the UK’s leading research centre for studying our planet using observations from satellites in space, to win a large photograph of Earth...

• Financial Markets and Institutions

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/finance-governance-and-enterprise/financial-markets-and-institutions

  The speed and direction of countries’ economic development are tightly linked to the structure, size, and quality of their financial markets.

• Leicester International Institute, Dalian University of Technology

  https://le.ac.uk/engineering/study/undergraduate/leicester-international-institute

  The Department of Engineering is proud to be one of the first departments at Leicester to participate in this exciting new venture between the University of Leicester and Dalian University of Technology.

• 4th September 2015 Sol 1094

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/09/04/4th-september-2015-sol-1094/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 4, 2015 This NavCam mosaic shows the Williams outcrop in front of us, which is part of the Stimson unit.