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Whats the difference between margin trading and gambling
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/whats-the-difference-between-margin-trading-and-gambling
Margin trading allows an individual to borrow money from a broker in order to take much larger positions in financial assets and therefore multiply the size of their gains and losses.
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Europeans have shaped what we think of as being quintessentially English
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/europeans-have-shaped-what-we-think-of-as-quintessentially-english
Immigrants from Europe have, for centuries, played a vital role in shaping British culture as well as our perception of what we think as quintessentially ‘English’ or ‘Scottish’.
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2025
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2025
2025 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians The Purloined Heart: Intertextuality Between Dickens and Poe 19 February Speaker: Dr Katie Bell (Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester) Online Victorian Statumania: Poets and Public Monuments 26...
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Hunting the silent killer
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/detecting-cancer
Professor Jacqui Shaw is leading research into new ways of detecting and monitoring cancer through the development of liquid biopsies or blood based tests.
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Working with faith community to combat diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/working-with-faith-community-to-combat-diabetes
A faith community that we have worked alongside to fight diabetes is now hosting an event on campus to explore how making small changes can help to fight diabetes in a big way.
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Expert in infectious diseases to call for research improvements during epidemics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/expert-in-infectious-diseases-to-call-for-research-improvements-during-epidemics
The research response to epidemics has been slow and our attitude to carrying out research in the midst of infectious disease outbreaks needs to change, an expert in infectious diseases will argue at a lecture on 18 November.
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Staff and students to climb Everest in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/staff-and-students-to-climb-everest-in-leicester
The Attenborough Tower, the tallest building on the University of Leicester’s campus, stands at 52 metres high. Mount Everest is 171 times higher, at 8848 metres. On Wednesday 6 May, between 9.30am and 3.
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Amateur photographers invited to snap a picture of health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/amateur-photographers-invited-to-snap-a-picture-of-health
Budding amateur photographers are being challenged to bring life-changing science into the community by snapping shots relating to the theme of 'Science: Hearts, Lungs and Fitness' in order to encourage people to get involved with local science research.
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New enzyme research could help to develop drugs to treat diseases such as cancer and Alzheimers Disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-enzyme-research-could-help-to-develop-drugs-to-treat-diseases-such-as-cancer-and-alzheimer2019s-disease
New knowledge about the mechanism of specific protein complexes in the body could help in the development of better drugs for the treatment of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s, according to research led by Professor John Schwabe from the Department of Molecular and...
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Getting a New or Replacement Card
https://le.ac.uk/library/information-hub/student-id-cards/getting-a-new-or-replacement-card
How to get a card., new students, replacements