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• The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code

  Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season. But now Leicester literary experts are part of an international team looking to uncover the secrets of the author’s coded manuscripts.

• University of Leicester celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/adrian-mole

  University of Leicester is staging a new exhibition and series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾.

• World-first clinical trial to test personalised treatments for aggressive form of lung cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/29-world-first-clinical-personalised-treatment-lung-cancer

  The first-ever trial into delivering personalised treatment for mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, opened at the HOPE Clinical Trials Facility at Leicester's Hospitals today (Tuesday 29 January).

• Professor Sir Hans Kornberg

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/hans-kornberg

  Hans Kornberg with colleagues in 1974. L-R: Geoff Turnock, Arthur Rowe, unknown, David Critchley, Hans Kornberg, Ron Cooper, unknown, Colin Jones, Peter Henderson(possibly), Ken Jones (photo: Chris Willmott) The Biochemistry Department in 1974.

• PhD researchers rise to Three Minute Thesis challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/three-minute-thesis-seaweed

  More than 100,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in the UK in 2020, with further demand for battery technology in hybrid vehicles.

• Chickens to be marker of Anthropocene

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/12-chickens-to-mark-anthropocene

  Chickens to be marker of Anthropocene Chicken|Consumption of chickens signals new geological epoch according to research led by the University of Leicester Modern meat chickens are a defining feature of the Anthropocene according to new research by Dr Carys Bennett and...

• Leicester researchers open doors for International Clinical Trials Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-researchers-open-doors-for-international-clinical-trials-day

  Research teams at Leicester’s Hospitals are giving members of the public an opportunity to experience first-hand some of the clinical trials they run.

• Big wins for Leicester on Varsity Night

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/big-wins-for-leicester-on-varsity-night

  Leicester preserved their unbeaten record in the women's match with a 53-0 victory, while their men also came out on top with a 34-0 win in front of a big and vocal Varsity Night crowd. Playing at No 8 was Sports President and ULWRFC 1st XV Captain Ofure Ugiagbe.

• Leicester’s Titan Krios Cryo-electron microscope helps in groundbreaking discovery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/21-cryo-electron-microscope-cte

  The Titan Krios Cryo-electron microscope, based at the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, has provided a significant part of the data that enabled researchers to understand the structural basis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a head...

• Leicester academic urges caution for international sports

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/sport-covid

  A Leicester academic has urged further caution for international sports events taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic.