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• New app to help with real time crime scene reporting across borders

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/new-app-to-help-with-real-time-crime-scene-reporting-across-borders

  A revolutionary app that allows scene of crime officers to record evidence centrally in real time, thus speeding up crime scene investigations, has been celebrated at a flagship innovation event.

• Stem cell research to help fight brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stem-cell-research-to-help-fight-brittle-bone-disease-osteogenesis-imperfecta

  A study involving Professor Raymond Dalgleish (pictured) from the Department of Genetics is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into foetuses with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which causes repeated...

• Study finds final year individual bonuses are counter-productive

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/study-finds-final-year-individual-bonuses-are-counter-productive

  A new study by researchers in the UK and Australia has found it makes better business sense to reward team performance rather than provide individual bonuses – and that group rewards generate the top-performing individuals.

• Leicester researchers nominated for prestigious health science award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/leicester-researchers-nominated-for-prestigious-health-science-award

  University researchers from the Children’s long term ventilation team at Leicester’s Hospitals have been nominated for a prestigious East Midlands Academic Health Science Network award.

• The Reverend Canon Angela Tilby to speak on Work Wealth and Human Flourishing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/the-reverend-canon-angela-tilby-to-speak-on-2018work-wealth-and-human-flourishing2019

  The Reverend Canon Angela Tilby (pictured) will present this year’s Provost Derek Hole Annual Lecture which will take place in the Rattray Lecture Theatre on Thursday 3 December at 5.30pm and is free and open to the public.

• New species of ancient tongue worm discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/new-species-of-ancient-tongue-worm-discovered

  An international team of scientists led by Leicester researchers has discovered a new species of fossil - a 'tongue worm' - in England and have identified it as an ancient parasitic intruder.

• Researcher suggests mainstream media is responsible for shallow coverage of antirape activism

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/researcher-suggests-mainstream-media-is-responsible-for-shallow-coverage-of-anti-rape-activism

  Dr Kaitlynn Mendes (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has argued in a new book that the mainstream media often neglects anti-rape activism by delivering ‘shallow’ coverage.

• A change of scenery mankinds unprecedented transformation of Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/a-change-of-scenery-mankind2019s-unprecedented-transformation-of-earth

  Human beings are pushing the planet in an entirely new direction with revolutionary implications for its life, a new study by researchers from the Department of Geology and published in The Anthropocene Review suggests.

• Increased activity during the summer caused by genes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/increased-activity-during-the-summer-caused-by-genes

  The warm temperature on a summer’s day is often a time for relaxing, but researchers from the Department of Genetics have suggested that a ‘thermosensory’ gene could be responsible for changes in behaviour in different climates.

• University scientists involved in major international plant reproduction study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/university-scientists-involved-in-major-international-plant-reproduction-study

  Leicester is part of a major new study on the evolution of sexual reproduction in plants which has received 2.6 million euros in funding.