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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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December Book Group: Officers and Gentlemen
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/12/19/officers/
Summary of the December 2014 meeting of the Waugh Book Group, Leicester
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Challenge of climate justice highlighted by new book on Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/climate-justice
The demand for a just and ethical transition to a decarbonised world faces major barriers in countries like Venezuela according to a new book by a University of Leicester anthropologist.
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Leicester researchers have co-developed the first global guidance for managing digestive conditions during Ramadan
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/ramadan-health-fasting-guidance
Researchers in Leicester have developed a clinical guide for managing patients with gastrointestinal and liver conditions during Ramadan
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Satellites are making our food more secure and sustainable, says Leicester expert
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/satellites-space-technology-food-sustainable
Earth observation expert Professor Heiko Balzter speaks as University of Leicester holds Food and Land Use Summit, where Leicester experts demonstrated how the space sector is playing a role in monitoring land use, tracking deforestation, and assessing agricultural...
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Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/lockdown-effects-on-bame-communities
New research by University of Leicester academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, may not have been as effective in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities with data showing that cases in these...
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Gender Equality in China
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/25/gender-equality-in-china/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 25, 2013 Are you an unmarried woman of over 27? In China you might be ‘leftover’ according to a report in BBC magazine: http://www.bbc.co.
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Journalists in danger
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/journalists-in-danger/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict.