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Physiology and Pharmacology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/bs2013
Module code: BS2013 This module is concerned with developing an understanding of the principles by which drugs affect the physiological function of individual cells that comprise organ systems such as the heart.
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School and departmental contacts
https://le.ac.uk/cls/people/school
Find contact details for the members of staff working in the schools and departments that make up the College of Life Sciences.
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Physiology and Pharmacology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/bs2013
Module code: BS2013 This module is concerned with developing an understanding of the principles by which drugs affect the physiological function of individual cells that comprise organ systems such as the heart.
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Study reveals mysteries of enzyme mechanism
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/study-reveals-mysteries-of-enzyme-mechanism
An international research team led by our University has made a breakthrough advance by trapping an intermediate in the mechanism of enzymes called heme peroxidases and determining its structure using a beam of neutrons from the heart of a nuclear reactor.
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Resources
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/school-and-colleges/law/resources
Resources for higher education students, on genetic-related issues and how the law effects research.
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Project to investigate genetic roots of resistance to anti-cancer therapy agents
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/project-to-investigate-genetic-roots-of-resistance-to-anti-cancer-therapy-agents
The mechanisms that cause cancers to respond poorly to therapy are to be investigated in a project that commemorates and honours the work of an eminent Leicester geneticist.
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Discovery of plant reproductive success provides insights into human fertility
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/plant-reproduction-fertility-chromosomes-leicester
University of Leicester researchers have uncovered how successful chromosome segregation during sexual reproduction is achieved in plants.
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Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/23-enderby-iron-age-bark-shield
A unique bark shield from the Iron Age has been discovered by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, the only one of its kind ever found in Europe.
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Leicester astronomers play key role in groundbreaking movie of the cosmos by new observatory
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/astronomers-groundbreaking-movie-cosmos-new-observatory
The decade-long wait for UK astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which University of Leicester space scientists have contributed to, reveals dazzling first images
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Call for Peer Reviewers – Museological Review, Issue 27
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/03/19/call-for-peer-reviewers-museological-review-issue-27/
We are now inviting museum studies scholars to engage with us as peer reviewers for Issue 27 of Museological Review.