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Biological Sciences with Foundation Year BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/biological-sciences-with-foundation-year-bsc/2026
If you would love to study Biological Sciences here at Leicester, but your A-level subjects don’t match our entry criteria, or you don’t quite have the entry requirements to get in, this degree is your bridge to making it happen.
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Medical Biosciences (Biochemistry) MBiolSci
https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-biosciences-biochemistry-mbiolsci/2026
Almost all of the biggest, most impactful breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of disease start with molecular-level analysis of biomolecules.
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Biological Sciences (Neuroscience) MBiolSci
https://le.ac.uk/courses/biological-sciences-neuroscience-mbiolsci/2026
Computers are powerful machines, but no computer is more powerful or complex than the human brain. Studying neuroscience will reveal how brains and nervous systems work in animals, including humans – and what happens when something goes wrong.
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Colleagues remember Lucy
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/lucy-ellis/colleagues
Lucy’s recent and former colleagues have shared some memories below: “I knew Lucy for 17 years, meeting her for the first time when the careers service was based in College House and liking her immediately as she was so friendly and warm-hearted.
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University marks Prematurity Awareness Month by encouraging schools to take up the Prem Aware Award to support children born early
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/prematuritymonth
Research undertaken by experts from the University of Leicester is helping to support parents and teachers of children born prematurely
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Desert ‘magick’ and astral bodies – what could they have to do with Special Collections?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/08/18/desert-magick-and-astral-bodies-what-could-they-have-to-do-with-special-collections/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on August 18, 2016 Our current exhibition, exploring the experiences and attitudes of the British in India from the early 17 th century to the turn of the 20 th , features a selection of material from the Union Club...
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Dismemberment in Victorian London: The Thames Torso Murders. By Shane McCorristine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/31/thames-torso-murders/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 31, 2016 Battersea, London. Source: The A to Z of Victorian London. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent, 1987.
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Petrophysicist joins ocean drilling research project investigating the origins of life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/petrophysicist-joins-ocean-drilling-research-project-investigating-the-origins-of-life
On 26 October 2015, the RSS James Cook (pictured) set sail from Southampton on route to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Dr Sally Morgan from the Department of Geology at Leicester, is a petrophysicist within the international team of scientists who are on-board the vessel.
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Alumni
https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/alumni
Take a look at the career profiles of some of the PhD alumni of the University of Leicester Department of Respiratory Sciences (incorporating Infection, Immunity and Inflammation), as examples of the variety of career paths that are possible.
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Preserving the grave
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/preserving-the-grave
One problem faced by the team was, how best to preserve the grave for posterity. Under normal circumstances, the best protection is to carefully cover the archaeology with a protective membrane and rebury it.