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                    Some combinations of long-term health conditions linked to worse quality of lifehttps://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/multimorbidity Certain combinations of long-term health conditions are associated with worse quality of life and should be taken into account when assessing patients. 
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                    New ‘explant’ technique predicts a tumour’s responsiveness to breast cancer treatmenthttps://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/breast-cancer Cancer researchers at the University of Leicester have developed a technique that could predict how well some breast cancer patients will respond to chemotherapy and antibody-directed cancer treatments 
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                    Applyinghttps://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/mature-students/applying Applications must be made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) for entry to full-time undergraduate degrees. Learn about when and how to apply. 
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                    Marian Whitakerhttps://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/marian-whitaker The University has learned, with sadness, of the death of Mrs Marian Edna Whitaker, who passed away on 12 December 2022, aged 94. 
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                    MRC Undergraduate Dissertation Prizehttps://le.ac.uk/medieval/study/undergraduate/dissertation-prize See records of the annual Medieval Research Centre prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in medieval studies. The prize was set up in 2007 in memory of A G and A L Postles. 
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                    Multi-million-pound investment in a regional cryo-electron microscope facility at our Universityhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/multi-million-pound-investment-in-a-regional-cryo-electron-microscope-facility-at-our-university Our University has led a successful bid, in partnership with the Universities of Warwick, Nottingham and Birmingham to establish a state-of-the-art Midlands regional cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) facility based at Leicester. 
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                    From the past to the future of workhttps://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/news/news/from-the-past-to-the-future-of-work By Stephen Wood, Professor of Management, University of Leicester School of Business. My two edited books, The Transformation of Work? and The Degradation of work?, have been selected for Routledge’s ‘Routledge Revivals’ Series. 
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                    Chicken and egg mystery solved in new DNA book for younger readershttps://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/dna-childrens-book New children’s book about genetics answers the age-old question of which came first, written by genetics experts working at the University of Leicester and the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 
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                    Multi-million pound study aims to unravel key mystery in genome regulationhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/panne Academics from the University of Leicester are leading a pioneering study to investigate how three-dimensional organisation of our genomes contributes to the regulation of genome function 
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                    EarthSense enterprise receives Royal recognitionhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/earthsense-queens-award A specialist air quality enterprise borne out of University of Leicester expertise has been recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise.