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Chicken and egg mystery solved in new DNA book for younger readers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/dna-childrens-book
New children’s book about genetics answers the age-old question of which came first, written by genetics experts working at the University of Leicester and the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
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Event will showcase support offered to Leicestershire’s small and medium-sized enterprises
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/showcase-support-leicestershire-small-and-medium-enterprises
The success stories of a project designed to support Leicestershire businesses and organisations will be revealed at a special showcase hosted by the University of Leicester.
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Medical Biosciences (Microbiology) MBiolSci
https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-biosciences-microbiology-mbiolsci/2026
Infectious diseases are responsible for a third of all deaths and are a major cause of death in infants and young children. The sheer diversity of pathogens and the exotic mechanisms they have evolved to escape the human immune system make them a fascinating topic to study.
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Projects
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/environmental-futures/projects
COVID-19 National Core Study - Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration, part of the Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Core study 2020-2022 Medical Research Council: £430,000; University of Leicester: Project lead: Professor John Gulliver CuBES Copper Basin...
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Equal Pay Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/equal-pay-day-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 This year equal pay day was 10 th November This highlights the gender gap in wages as it is calculated by researchers to represent the last day in which women earn the same as men.
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University of Leicester ranked in UK top three for COVID-19 research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/leicester-ranked-in-uk-top-three-for-covid-19-research
Leicester has been ranked as one of the top performing universities in the UK for COVID-19 research.
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Physics & Astronomy: Page 20
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/author/leigh_fletcher/page/20/
Nobel Prize: How Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysics Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 7 October 2020 The award of this year’s Nobel prize in physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and...
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Physics & Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/author/leigh_fletcher/
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships at Leicester Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 April 2024 The School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester welcomes applicants for independent research fellowships to be hosted here at...
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Physics and Astronomy Blog: Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/page/2/
Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
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Convict Labor and Its Commemoration: the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine Experience
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/01/09/convict-labor-and-its-commemoration-the-mitsui-miike-coal-mine-experience/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on January 9, 2017 By Miyamoto Takashi Note : This article is reprinted with permission from the author. It originally appeared in The Asia-Pacific Journal . Introduction Figure 1: Entrance of the Miyanohara tunnel, the Miike Coal Mine.