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Leicester researcher scoops prestigious award for her work on asthma
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/impact-award-nihr-leicester
The work of a Leicester researcher testing the benefits of a new treatment for severe asthma has scooped a prestigious award
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Gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil unearthed in Oxfordshire
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/gigantic-pterosaur
University of Leicester researcher involved in study of one of the largest pterosaurs of the Jurassic era
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Disorder, dissent and disruption
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/disorder-dissent-disruption
A collaboration between RCMG and the Wellcome Collection considering the challenges surrounding the embedding of disruption in permanent galleries.
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Ionic Liquids Demonstrator
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/about/facilities/ionic-liquids-demonstrator
The Ionic Liquid Demonstrator (ILD) is a multi-application pilot plant facility to showcase the application of ionic liquids primarily in the area of metal processing.
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Research aims to improve sleep for people with dementia
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dementia-sleep
Leicester expertise in behavioural science will feed into a research programme helping to find new ways of supporting people with dementia who experience problems with sleep. Across the world, around 55 million people have dementia. Up to 90% of them experience problems sleeping.
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New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/parkinsons-robot
Parkinson’s disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in part of the brain called the substantia nigra. As a result, dopamine – a chemical that helps to regulate movement of the body – drops.
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Signs of early heart failure revealed in patients with type 2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/heart-failure-diabetes
Adults with type 2 diabetes that have no history, signs or symptoms of heart problems have been shown to have severely limited exercise capacity.
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New research shows link between BMI and depression
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/bmi-depression
New research by academics at the University of Leicester has found that your risk of depression increases with a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) – which is bad news for those who have put on the dreaded ‘corona-stone’ during lockdown.
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Drag up Chinese film
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/drag-up-chinese-film/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 A project led by University of Nottingham and Queer China explores non-western drag culture, looking specifically at its role in the Chinese community.
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LGBT+ public officials
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/06/lgbt-public-officials/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2022 Queer politics databases from Princeton University New Queer Politics website provides data on openly self-declared LGBT+ officials worldwide.