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Space Park Leicester and Perpetual Atomics achieve historic first in radioisotope heater unit safety testing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/space-park-leicester-perpetual-atomics-radioisotope-heater-unit-safety-testing
Success for University of Leicester and spinout company Perpetual Atomics Ltd as containment system undergoes impact test campaign and a leap forward for deployment of americium radioisotope power systems
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Letter of the Law and Spirit of the Law
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/03/07/letter-of-the-law-and-spirit-of-the-law/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on March 7, 2018 So this week we learned that a UK parliamentary body had suggested that some members of a cycling team did not break the sporting laws in terms of taking drugs but they had “crossed an ethical line”.
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Researcher lands £250k funding to continue investigation into DNA damage and its link to cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/amanda-chaplin
A university researcher has been awarded a prestigious prize to continue her cutting-edge work to understand how the body responds to DNA damage that can ultimately lead to cancer.
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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.
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The lives and letters of the poor in the nineteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/own-write/lives-and-letters
Pauper letters are helping historians write a new ‘history from below' by giving a voice to the ordinary men and women before the twentieth century.
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Programme
https://le.ac.uk/engineering-the-past/programme
8.30am-9.00am Registration and Refreshments 9.00am-9.05am Welcome/Induction 9.05am-9.15am Opening Remarks by Professor Richard Thomas 9.15am-10.00am Introductory Keynote: Professor Ian Haynes Engineering and the future of the past: Perspectives from Rome Transformed. 10.00am-10.
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Staff wellbeing is central to NHS Workforce Plan’s success
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/health
More needs to be done to tackle staff wellbeing if the government’s NHS Workforce Long Term Plan is to be a success, says a University of Leicester academic.
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Leicester scientists help to drive technological revolution in developing electric vehicles
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-scientists-help-to-drive-technological-revolution-in-developing-electric-vehicles
Two academics from our University are part of a consortium that has received over £9 million for a project that will determine the ways in which spent lithium batteries can be recycled.
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Leicester scientists identify novel approach to treat and prevent global health threat
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-scientists-identify-novel-approach-to-treat-and-prevent-global-health-threat
Leicester scientists have previously identified the potential of using a bacteriophage cocktail to eradicate Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and in this research, using an insect model, they show that their prophylactic use can prevent infection forming in the first...
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Head of British Army to give public talk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/head-of-british-army-to-give-public-talk
The head of the British Army General Sir Nicholas Carter is to deliver a keynote lecture at our University on Wednesday 20 July 2016 from 1.45pm-3pm in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Centre for Medicine, 15 Lancaster Road.