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• Study into asthma provides a paradigm shift in understanding of lifethreatening condition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/study-into-asthma-provides-a-paradigm-shift-in-understanding-of-life-threatening-condition

  A new study led by our University to understand how to improve the health of severe asthma patients has made a breakthrough finding, with the discovery being described as a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding the life-threatening condition.

• Study should inform future health provision for premature youngsters

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/preterm-healthcare-leicester-study

  A new study by University of Leicester researchers has found that children born preterm spend an average of two days admitted to hospital between going home from neonatal care and their second birthday

• Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study

  A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges

• Study highlights barriers to healthcare for patients with learning disabilities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/learning-disabilities

  Patients with learning disabilities experience significant barriers to accessing healthcare in England, new study by University of Leicester researchers shows

• First global patient for kidney study recruited in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/first-global-patient-for-kidney-study-recruited-in-leicester

  A patient from Birmingham is the first person to be recruited into a new worldwide study to test new treatments for a potentially life-threatening kidney condition called IgA nephropathy.

• Study on dopamine neurons could improve mobility and neurological disorder research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/study-on-dopamine-neurons-could-improve-mobility-and-neurological-disorder-research

  A research team from the Department of Biology has discovered for the first time both when and why the particular cells in the brain that affect movement are active - after examining transparent zebrafish.

• Senate Regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2025/26 onwards)

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-5/2025-26-study

  Read Senate Regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2025/26 onwards).

• New study to explore actions of solidarity with asylum seekers and refugees

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/new-study-to-explore-actions-of-solidarity-with-asylum-seekers-and-refugees

  A new study into collective actions in support of vulnerable groups – including asylum seekers and refugees - is being led by our University in collaboration with the Université de Nantes.

• Student study investigates how lasers can control lightning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/student-study-investigates-how-lasers-can-control-lightning

  Physics students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy have investigated the possibility of inducing, directing and controlling lightning strikes using lasers.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/110/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester