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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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Bacteriophages
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/bacteriophages
Bacteriophage (phage) are small viruses that infect bacteria. They are either lytic: they undergo a productive infection within a bacterial cell causing death or they are lysogenic. The study of phage can be utilised for the treatment of antibiotic resistant infection.
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Book Group: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/04/07/april-book-group-the-ordeal-of-gilbert-pinfold/
An account of our Book Group discussion of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, written up by Ian Truslove.
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Physics with Data Science BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/physics-with-data-science-bsc/2026
Physics with Data Science combines the study of the fundamental laws of nature, and how they apply to the real world, with innovative mathematical and computational methods to make the best use of data for science, business and government.
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Physics with Climate Science BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/physics-with-climate-science-bsc/2026
Interested in advancing humanity’s understanding of climate change and our impact on the natural environment? Curious about how advanced space and airborne technology can improve our ability to predict weather or the impact of pollution? If so, Physics with Climate Science is...
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Physics with Climate Science MPhys
https://le.ac.uk/courses/physics-with-climate-science-mphys/2026
Interested in advancing humanity’s understanding of climate change and our impact on the natural environment? Curious about how advanced space and airborne technology can improve our ability to predict weather or the impact of pollution? If so, Physics with Climate Science is...
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Physics with Data Science MPhys
https://le.ac.uk/courses/physics-with-data-science-mphys/2026
Physics with Data Science combines the study of the fundamental laws of nature, and how they apply to the real world, with innovative mathematical and computational methods to make the best use of data for science, business and government.
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Sir Laurence Howard Rutland Scholarship
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/sir-laurence-howard-rutland-scholarships-fund
The Family Loyalty Discount entitles international (non-EU) students to 10% off your course fees for each year of a full-time course.
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Exciting Faraday Undergraduate Summer Experience (FUSE) paid internship opportunities for summer 2023
https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/fuse
Studying a STEM degree? Wondering what career to pursue? Interested in finding out more about the battery sector? Keen to spend time with a dynamic community of pioneering battery researchers seeking to find solutions to support a fully electric future? The Faraday...
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New approach will help identify drugs that can ‘glue’ proteins together
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/glue-proteins
A new screening method that can test the effectiveness of therapeutic molecules designed to ‘glue’ proteins together in the body has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester.