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• Discovery of plant reproductive success provides insights into human fertility

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/plant-reproduction-fertility-chromosomes-leicester

  University of Leicester researchers have uncovered how successful chromosome segregation during sexual reproduction is achieved in plants.

• University of Leicester student launches app to boost physio learning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/student-app-boost-physio-learning

  Immanuel Sani has developed AcePhysio to support physiotherapist learning and optimised to help knowledge retention for students and practitioners

• What a week!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/licl/2015/03/05/what-a-week/

  Posted by Dawn Watkins in Law in Children's Lives on March 5, 2015 Children playing ‘Adventures with Lex’ Well – what an exciting week this has been.

• How to create a simple podcast using Audacity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/06/17/how-to-create-a-simple-podcast-using-audacity/

  Posted by Rachel Tunstall in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 17, 2016 Audio recordings and Podcasts are a good way to aid learning, and to use as a form of assessment.

• 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.

• Leicester geologist to present rock-licking trick for Hallowe’en treat at Royal Institution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/geologist-rock-licking-halloween-royal-institution

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz joins panel at the Royal Institution on 31 October with other winners of Ig Nobel Prizes to explain their winning work for a public audience

• Microbial genomes for schools and colleges

  https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/microbial-sciences/microbial-genomes/school-and-colleges

  Genome is the word we use to describe all of an organism's DNA, including its chromosomes and any other pieces of DNA it may have acquired. The University of Leicester provides a range of resources for academic purposes.

• University joins national group dedicated to tackling world health issues

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/biofilm-research-disease-resistance

  The University of Leicester has joined a consortium of research institutes dedicated to tackling disease, climate change and food security

• Leicester diabetes expert’s research supports ‘game changing’ obesity breakthrough

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/semaglutide

  Ground breaking research in diabetes led by a team of Leicester researchers has played an integral role in laying the foundations for new research published today, which reveals that a new anti-obesity medication is almost twice as effective in helping people lose weight than...

• University breakthrough applied by Leicesters Hospitals to provide pioneering noninvasive autopsy service

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/university-breakthrough-used-by-leicesters-hospitals-to-provide-pioneering-non-invasive-autopsy-service

  Earlier this year, findings from our University represented a breakthrough in how autopsy practice could be conducted in the UK and worldwide.