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Police and hate crime
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/police-and-hate-crime/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 Do the police investigate hate crime properly? Serious concerns have been raised this week by an HMIC inspection report.
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Don’t Look Away: No place for exclusion of LGBTI students (UNESCO)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/dont-look-away-no-place-for-exclusion-of-lgbti-students-unesco/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 International LGBTQI Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) and UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report released findings from research and surveys on the situation of LGBTQI...
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University of Leicester receives share of £34m BHF investment to help safeguard UK’s world-class research status
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/05-british-heart-foundation-funding-research
abstract image showing heart disease research|Funding will focus on strengthening research into precision medicine.
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Current view on origins of Parkinsons disease challenged by new findings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/current-view-on-origins-of-parkinson2019s-disease-challenged-by-new-findings
The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies.
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Professor Stephen Gordon
https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/alumni/stephen-gordon
Find out more about Professor Stephen Gordon, alumnus of the University of Leicester Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. He is Associate Professor in the Veterinary Sciences Centre at University College, Dublin.
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New liquid biopsy could help identify advanced breast cancer patients who would benefit from a change in treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/new-2018liquid-biopsy2019-could-help-identify-advanced-breast-cancer-patients-who-would-benefit-from-a-change-in-treatment
A novel blood test that measures genetic changes in circulating cancer DNA could help identify patients with metastatic breast cancer who could benefit from a change of treatment, new research has found.
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PhD students present forensic research at prestigious international conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/phd-students-present-forensic-research-at-prestigious-international-conference
Students from the INTREPID Forensics programme, based at the University of Leicester, presented their work at the 2nd Congress of the European Division of the International Association of Identification (IAI), which was held at the INTERPOL Headquarters in Lyon, France on...
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Event explores digital opportunities for crisis work and international development
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/event-explores-digital-opportunities-for-crisis-work-and-international-development
The role of communications and technology in crises worldwide are to be discussed at an event that launches a new international network of researchers.
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Spectrophotometers
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/about/facilities-and-services/biophysical-instrumentation-and-anaerobic-facilities/spectrophotometers
Find out about the range of spectrophotometers available in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Leicester.
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Leicester Cancer Research Biobank
https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/facilities-and-services/cancer-biobank
The Leicester Cancer Research Biobank is hosted within the department of Genetics and Genome Biology, Cancer Research Centre based at the Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building, Cancer research is currently in an era in which thousands of genes, RNA molecules and...