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Researchers develop new genetic tool to identify people at risk of coronary heart disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/researchers-develop-new-genetic-tool-to-identify-people-at-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease
A new genetic risk score that could help to identify individuals at risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) much earlier and potentially improve its prevention has been developed by a team including a University of Leicester Professor in research part-funded by the British Heart...
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People
https://le.ac.uk/own-write/people
Meet the team involved in this exciting project to uncover the lives of ordinary men and women before the twentieth century.
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First confirmed neutron star merger re-appears from behind the Sun
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/first-confirmed-neutron-star-merger-emerges-from-behind-the-sun
A research team including astronomers and astrophysicists at the Universities of Warwick and Leicester had to wait over 100 days for the sight of the first confirmed neutron star merger to re-appear from behind the glare of the Sun.
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Powerful partnerships for a better future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/powerful-partnerships-for-a-better-future
A ‘town and gown’ meeting for academics and local people to work together to build a better future for Leicester is being held at our University. Leicester Matters brings together the local community and the University of Leicester to identify ideas for future cooperation.
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Critical and Creative Geographies
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/critical-creative-geographies
Research in Critical and Creative Geographies at the University of Leicester draws together social science, geohumanities and critical GIS research in Environmental Governance and Social Justice; Planetary Urban and Rural Transformations; and Everyday Geopolitical Lives.
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Sir David Attenborough returns to Leicester to officially open new fully-inclusive arts gallery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/sir-david-attenborough-returns-to-leicester-to-officially-open-new-fully-inclusive-arts-gallery
The naturalist and long-running television personality Sir David Attenborough will be returning to the place of his Leicester childhood to open a new fully-inclusive gallery championed by his brother Lord Attenborough.
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Funny bones macabre humour in the Dance of Death
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/funny-bones-macabre-humour-in-the-2018dance-of-death2019
The haunting tale of a married couple who tragically lost nine of their ten children in infancy and later died in a state of Dickensian poverty sounds like a fitting story for Halloween - but for many people in the 19th century this exposure to death was commonplace and...
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Leicester researcher scoops early career award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/dorothy-bishop-prize-researchers-leicester
Research Associate Dr Michael Biddle from the University of Leicester has been awarded an early career award for his work.
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University of Leicester writer, Dr Jonathan Taylor wins Arnold Bennett Book Prize for Scablands and Other Stories
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/jonathan-taylor-scablands-arnold-bennett
A collection of short stories written by the University of Leicester’s Dr Jonathan Taylor has won the Arnold Bennet Book Prize.
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COVID-19 death rates among ethnic minorities
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-ethnic-minorities
Exploring the disproportionate rates of COVID-19 related deaths among people from ethnic minorities.