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University of Leicester to mark World Diabetes Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/university-of-leicester-to-mark-world-diabetes-day
People are being invited to learn more about Type 2 diabetes from University experts at a specialist centre in Leicester to mark an international awareness campaign.
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DNA fingerprinting
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting
In 1984 Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting at the University of Leicester, learn more about his work.
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Scientists are discovering how land management impacts the environment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/land-management
Agtelligence is working with scientists at Space Park Leicester on an innovative project that examines how land management impacts soil health, biodiversity, water and carbon.
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How Facebook news presents different realities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/how-facebook-news-presents-different-realities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics. See the Nieman reports.
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Religious and Ethnic Groups Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/religious-and-ethnic-groups-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups Data Free access the University of Illinois to statistical data which provides information on religious and ethnic diversity in over 100 nations...
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...
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The Limits of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Will Davies*
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/04/15/the-limits-of-neoliberalism-an-interview-with-will-davies/
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on April 15, 2015 Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book , what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work? WD: The main question I had, following on from...
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jbridges: Page 16
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/16/
This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards...I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions.
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School children invited to take part in Leicester’s COP28 celebration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/cop28-poster-competition
Space Park Leicester and the National Centre for Earth Observation are inviting school children to send in their pictures, posters and infographics about climate change.
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Service and Ordering
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/facilities-and-technologies/protex/service-and-ordering
We provide a unique PLEICS vector(s) cloning service with a choice of 136 vectors.