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• 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

• Easy access for local people to university libraries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/libraries

  Universities in Leicester and Leicestershire are opening up their libraries to public users.

• Differentiating High-Involvement Management from High-Performance Work Systems: Why it Matters for U

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/07/17/differentiating-high-involvement-management-from-high-performance-work-systems-and-why-it-matters-for-uk-productivity/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on July 17, 2020     Professor Stephen Wood argues that focusing on management practices that involve workers in workplace decisions could be the answer to the UK’s productivity crisis.

• University of Leicester staff blogs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/08/01/podcast-pythagoras-trousers/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on August 1, 2016 Juno has just passed a major milestone in its first wide orbit around the giant planet, having passed by its apojove, the furtherest distance to Jupiter (8.1 million km).

• Worlds biggest study of genetics of lung health and disease allows scientists to predict chance of developing COPD

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/world2019s-biggest-study-of-genetics-of-lung-health-and-disease-allows-scientists-to-predict-chance-of-developing-copd

  The world’s biggest study into an individual’s genetic make-up and the risk of developing lung disease could allow scientists to more accurately ‘predict’ - based on genes and smoking - your chance of developing COPD, a deadly disease which is the third commonest cause of...

• Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-thames-molluscs

  In the last few decades, the life of London’s River Thames has been transformed.

• Glynis Wright MBE

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/entrepreneurs-in-residence/glynnis-wright

  Dr Glynis Wright MBE is an alumna of the University of Leicester and a well-known businesswoman and lawyer who made a career U-turn at the age of 40 to train for the legal profession.

• A new annual journal: Museum Worlds

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2013/10/28/a-new-annual-journal-museum-worlds/

  Posted by Sandra Dudley in School of Museum Studies Blog on October 28, 2013 Excitingly, a new journal appeared in the world of museum studies this summer.

• Chicken and egg mystery solved in new DNA book for younger readers

  https://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

• Leicester scientists join new mission to observe carbon dioxide levels

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-scientists-join-new-mission-to-observe-carbon-dioxide-levels

  Scientists from the University of Leicester and the National Centre for Earth Observation, which is led by Leicester's Professor John Remedios, are to join the science team for MicroCarb supporting the definition of the mission and the development of the data...