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  • 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...

  • Leicester student in world Wheelchair Rugby Challenge

    A Leicester doctoral student has described the ‘great experience’ of taking part in the inaugural BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge.

  • 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.

  • A change of scenery mankinds unprecedented transformation of Earth

    Human beings are pushing the planet in an entirely new direction with revolutionary implications for its life, a new study by researchers from the Department of Geology and published in The Anthropocene Review suggests.

  • Superhero vision measures water quality of lakes from space

    An international team of researchers led by Professor Heiko Balzter from the Department of Geography has demonstrated a way to assess the quality of water on Earth from space by using satellite technology that can visualise pollution levels otherwise invisible to the human...

  • Leicester to be part of regional hub for postgraduate training

    Our University is working with a consortium of Midlands universities to open up a range of new opportunities for postgraduate study in the region.

  • Promising early results from new UK Type 2 diabetes prevention programme

    A programme aimed at preventing the development of Type 2 diabetes in people at high risk of the disease has achieved “promising” early results, a study has found.

  • Universitys Attenborough Arts Centre to host plant and pollination themed art exhibitions

    Our Attenborough Arts Centre will host two new contemporary art exhibitions in its brand new gallery spaces this summer, from 23 July – Sunday 25 September. ‘Plant Culture, selected from the Arts Council Collection’ and ‘Every Last Mouthful’ by artists Chatwin: Martin.

  • Research shows women who feel more at risk of crime also prefer physically dominant partners

    Women who prefer physically formidable and dominant mates (PPFDM) tend to feel more at risk of crime regardless of the situation or risk factors present, according to researchers from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour.

  • Researchers provide new insights into gene regulation

    A team of researchers led by the our University has shed new light on how the regulation machinery that controls gene expression works by characterising a complex known as the NuRD complex.

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