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Archaeology students from University of Leicester unearth very big Roman house in the country
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/roman-villa
Finds from latest excavation in Leicestershire may provide insight into the ‘rural charm’ of Britain to the Romans, while first-year archaeology students developed their excavation skills with Time Team filming for a feature later in the year
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Charity shop find is former student’s long-lost compass from University of Leicester days
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/charity-shop-find-alumnus-long-lost-compass
Staff at University of Leicester help to reunite an alumnus with a lost treasure after volunteers at Martock Charity Shop in Somerset discovered a compass with a 60-year old note
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Latest report on stillbirth and neonatal death rates for local populations and individual NHS Trusts and Health Boards across the UK in 2016
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/latest-report-on-stillbirth-and-neonatal-death-rates-for-local-populations-and-individual-nhs-trusts-and-health-boards-across-the-uk-in-2016
Research published today shows that the stillbirth rate associated with twin pregnancy in the UK has reduced by around 44% over the period 2014 to 2016. Rates of neonatal mortality associated with twin pregnancy have similarly reduced by a third.
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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.
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Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/biological-sciences-biochemistry-bsc/2026
What are the chemical processes that happen inside all living things? And what do they tell us about the baffling complexity of life? Welcome to the fascinating world of biochemistry. This degree includes the option to change your specialism in your second year.
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Locating the choir within the church
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/locating-the-choir
A small area above the human remains in Trench 1 was carefully widened with a digger to give archaeologists better access to the burial. Jo Appleby and Turi King began to carefully remove the grave soil by hand. Work was slow, to avoid damage to the skeleton.
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Structural biology
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/structural-biology
Work in the College of Life Sciences on the structure of proteins is providing insight on a wide range of fundamental processes such as cell motility, drug metabolism, gene activation and tuberculosis virulence.
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In my prison notebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/08/29/in-my-prison-notebook/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on August 29, 2016 Last year I came across a rare archival find: multiple editions of a 19th century prison newspaper covertly produced by Russian inmates between 1890 and 1905.
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Issues around interviewing
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/interviewing/issues
Discover the issues that may surround interviewing, such as: bias, rapport, reciprocation, cultural considerations and interpreters.
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New hope for patients with aggressive asbestos-linked cancer as trial shows a targeted cancer treatment can improve survival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/asbestos-cancer-nero-leicester-fennell
Leicester researchers have shown for the first time that a drug that prevents cancer cells from repairing can control the growth of mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer caused by asbestos