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Sweet genes – not sweet dreams - could explain why a bad night’s sleep makes you older
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/sleep
New funding support to research teams at University of Leicester to study sleep’s effects on ageing epigenetics Changes to our DNA occur as we get older and could be affected by sleep disturbance Scientists aim to find out whether this epigenetic clock plays a...
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Facilities
https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/facilities
The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester occupies a recently-refurbished, modern, purpose-built laboratory space, furnished with up-to-date equipment for the latest molecular genetic methods.
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Sydney Holloway
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/sydney-holloway
We have recently learned with great sadness of the death of Sydney Holloway, who was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.
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Alumni stars are recognised at glittering awards night in London
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/alumni-stars-awards-night-london
The University of Leicester recognised its inspiring alumni for their achievements at a special awards evening held in London.
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Summer 2024 newsletter
https://le.ac.uk/cls/study/patient-carer-group/newsletters/summer-2024
Dear Patients and Carers, Welcome to the Summer newsletter. We have recently sent out an email to all members of the Patient and Carer Group to say thank-you for all your support over the last academic year.
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Senate regulation 13: Emergency regulation
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-13
Downloadable version of Senate Regulation 13 (PDF, 437KB) Introduction 13.1 This Regulation explains the measures the University can take when its academic activities suffer significant disruption due to serious and unexpected events outside of its control. 13.
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Queering Islam: a new events series
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/11/26/queering-islam-a-new-events-series/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on November 26, 2015 It’s been a little while since my last post on the films of Shamim Sarif.
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Why alcohol limits and unit guidelines could be completely wrong
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/5-academic-explores-why-alcohol-limits-and-unit-guidelines-could-be-completely-wrong
ULSB academic explores why alcohol limits and unit guidelines could be completely wrong
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Research reveals solar storms trigger Jupiters Northern Lights
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/research-reveals-solar-storms-trigger-jupiter2019s-2018northern-lights2019
Solar storms trigger Jupiter’s intense ‘Northern Lights’ by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth’s aurora borealis, finds new research, involving the University of Leicester, using NASA’s...
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Good cholesterol doesnt always lower heart attack risk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/2018good2019-cholesterol-doesn2019t-always-lower-heart-attack-risk
Some people with high levels of ‘good’ high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), contrary to earlier evidence that people with more HDL-C are usually at lower heart disease risk.