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Weapons of plant production
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/plant-production
Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison researches the modification of genetic makeup to make stronger and healthier species of plants to help tackle poverty and ensure survival.
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Fair Game? A Reviewers Tale
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/02/11/fair-game-a-reviewers-tale/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2017 Emeritus Professor Peter Armstrong (p.armstrong@le.ac.uk) discusses an episode in the journal reviewing process that led him to believe that power and politics play their part too.
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Jupiter’s aurora – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/27/jupiters-aurora-the-most-powerful-northern-lights-display-in-the-solar-system/
Posted by Rosie Johnson in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 27, 2016 During Juno’s time at Jupiter, we will have the fantastic opportunity to study the most powerful aurora in the solar system.
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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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Development data library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/development-data-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 USAID Library relaunched with enhanced data. This website provides information on projects supported from its funding.
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Generous donation to enhance pioneering kidney research at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/kidney-research
Pioneering research by the University of Leicester into chronic kidney disease has received another major boost thanks to a £1 million donation
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Ramadan course means Muslims with type 2 diabetes can fast safely
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/11-ramadan-course-means-muslims-with-type-2-diabetes-can-fast-safely
Ramadan course means Muslims with type 2 diabetes can fast safely Melanie Davies and Kamlesh Khunti|Muslims in Leicester with type 2 diabetes who are planning to fast during Ramadan are being given the chance to learn how to do it safely as part of a new course.
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Leicester researchers identify ethnic disparities in accessing continuous glucose monitors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/ethnic-disparities-glucose-monitoring-leicester
People from Afro-Caribbean and South Asian backgrounds are less likely to be prescribed “life-changing” diabetes technology compared to White individuals, a new study by the University of Leicester has reported
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UK-born UK healthcare workers more likely to report multiple long-term health conditions than those born overseas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/health-conditions
UK healthcare workers born in the UK are significantly more likely to report having multiple long-term health conditions than migrant UK healthcare workers, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Leicester
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X-ray fluorescence
https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/mixs/xray-fluorescence
By recording the X-ray spectrum you can work out the elements that make up Mercury’s surface.