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Foundations of Biological Sciences
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/bs0011
Module code: BS0011 This module will provide a comprehensive grounding in the molecular underpinnings of the chemistry, biology and genetics of biological organisms, and will develop your understanding of how these foundations contribute to the complexity of biological systems.
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Meet our team
https://le.ac.uk/cbs/meet-team
Meet our team working in the Core Biotechnology Services and find contact details for the managers of each facility.
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Waste Busters
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/primary/waste-busters
Learn more about the Waste Busters programme that we offer to primary school children.
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Recombinant DNA and genetic techniques
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/recombinant-dna-and-genetic-techniques
Increasingly scientists are using new molecular techniques to investigate the structure and function of DNA. Take a look at what The University of Leicester has to offer to help with your studies.
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Botanic Garden’s Crocus Sundays return this month
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/crocus-sundays
Crocus Sundays return to the University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden this month (February).
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Available PhD projects
https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/research-degrees/phd-projects
Browse PhD projects and the supervisors who run them in the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester.
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Outgoing Chancellor Lord Willetts commends University of Leicester welcome
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/willetts
The University of Leicester’s outgoing Chancellor The Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS has commended its long-held reputation of being welcome to all, as he passes the baton to his successor.
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Disturbed sleep may partially explain Long COVID breathlessness, find researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/covid-and-sleep
A major UK study has discovered that the disturbed sleep patterns in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 was likely to be a driver of breathlessness
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First, wonderful, glimpse of Jupiter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/05/first-wonderful-glimpse-of-jupiter/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 5, 2016 Wow! The Juno spacecraft did not disappoint! The images released after Juno’s first science perijove are absolutely stunning.
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Its written in the stars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/its-written-in-the-stars
Astronomers today opened one of the last remaining windows on the Universe, publishing the first full 3D census of over one billion stars in our Milky Way.