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Hotspots and minisatellites
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/hotspots-and-minisatellites
Instrumental to Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys' refining of the genetic fingerprinting technique were hotspots of activity and minisatellites.
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Obituary: Sir Michael Atiyah
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/14-obituary-sir-michael-atiyah
Sir Michael Atiyah, who was widely regarded as Britain’s greatest mathematician, has died aged 89. Sir Michael was Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 1995 and 2005.
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New exercise app using space data aims to help those with long-term health conditions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/p-step
A personalised new exercise app for people with long-term health conditions including heart and lung disease and diabetes is set to be piloted by researchers from the University of Leicester.
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Earth history opens a new chapter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/earth-history-opens-a-new-chapter
An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be used to mark the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history – the Anthropocene.
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The history of genetic fingerprinting
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/history
Read about the history of genetic fingerprinting, and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys' journey from Oxford to Leicester to beyond genetic fingerprinting.
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Project to explore how survival of British hedgehogs is affected by changing climate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/project-to-explore-how-survival-of-british-hedgehogs-is-affected-by-changing-climate
Researchers from our University will be exploring how the UK’s changing climate could be affecting the survival of British hedgehogs as part of a new project to protect endangered animal species.
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Academic and teaching staff
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/people/academic
Browse the academic staff in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
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Major funding for Leicester will help find new cancer treatments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cancer-research-funding
The search for new cancer treatments in Leicester is to receive a major funding investment of up to £2 million, providing future hope for people diagnosed with the disease.
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Raptorman is conservation hero
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/international-accolade-for-graduate-whose-mission-is-to-save-vultures
A Leicester graduate has been honoured by HRH Princess Royal for his conservation work to save vultures. Dr Munir Virani gained a Master’s degree in 1994 and a PhD in 2000, then under the supervision of Professor Emeritus David Harper.
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Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/21-uranus-rings-alma-vlt
The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — and they stand out as surprisingly bright in new heat images of the planet taken by two large telescopes in the high deserts of Chile.