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• Public event to reveal how magic can be used to study the brain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/public-event-to-reveal-how-magic-can-be-used-to-study-the-brain

  Have you ever wondered how scientists explore the brain, or what goes wrong during a stroke or in dementia? If so, the University is partnering with the DANA Foundation for the third year to celebrate Brain Awareness Week (BAW) with a free public event on Wednesday 18 March...

• New study shows that broader DNA testing is needed to diagnose complex eye conditions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/june/eye-condition-genome-testing-leicester

  A new study by University of Leicester experts shows that complex eye conditions can be diagnosed much earlier through genome-wide testing

• Do winners cheat more? New research refutes previous high-profile study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/games-cheating

  New large-scale research led by the University of Leicester shows that winning does not cause people to cheat, in stark contrast to a previous high-profile study.

• Exposure to air pollution associated with increase in sedentary time, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/pollution

  Long-term exposure to current levels of UK air pollution has been found to be associated with an annual increase of up to 22 minutes of sedentary time each day, in a study published in the Journal of Public Health.

• Study into German prisoners of war in Leicester after Second World War

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/study-into-german-prisoners-of-war-in-leicester-after-second-world-war

  Student Sue Bishop from the School of History is keen to hear from people with information about German prisoners of war who were held in Leicestershire camps during and after the Second World War for her third year undergraduate dissertation.

• Study seeking to find first medication for Long COVID welcomes first participant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/covid-medication

  Researchers in Leicester have welcomed the first patient living with inflammatory Long COVID onto a study testing the effectiveness of tocilizumab at relieving their symptoms.

• New study calls for action on air pollution in Northern India

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/north-india-air-pollution

  New research led by the University of Leicester calls for urgent action on open field burning to reduce the intensity of post-monsoon air pollution in Northern India.

• Social stress key to population’s rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/covid-19-social-stress

  Mathematicians have analysed global COVID-19 data to identify two constants which can drastically change a country’s rate of infection.

• Leicester author shares untold story of Mary Attenborough

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/mary-attenborough

  A Leicester historian says he is ‘absolutely certain’ that Mary Attenborough would have been front and centre in helping refugees and asylum seekers in 2022.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 161

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/161/

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