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Decoy protein injection could stop COVID-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/17-decoy-protein-covid-19
Coronavirus image Illustration of coronavirus|Decoy proteins that bind and trap the coronavirus to stop it infecting cells in our bodies are being developed by the University of Leicester.
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Stop the clocks: Brisk walking may slow biological ageing process, study shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/walking-speed-ageing
A new study of genetic data published today (Wednesday) of more than 400,000 UK adults has revealed a clear link between walking pace and a genetic marker of biological age.
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Leicester in 1945 – the British Council & Harold White
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/05/01/leicester-in-1945-the-british-council-harold-white/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on May 1, 2019 A few years ago, when I was working at the East Midlands Oral History Archive, I planned an oral history project that would record people’s memories of the immediate post-war years in Leicester.
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Margaret Maclean: Page 3
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/mm219/page/3/
Library Assistant, Rare Books and Archives in the University Library
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Extraordinary Roman mosaic and villa discovered beneath farmer's field in Rutland
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/rutland-mosaic
John Thomas, Deputy Director of ULAS and project manager on the excavations, said: “This is certainly the most exciting Roman mosaic discovery in the UK in the last Century.
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CassiniHuygens will truly be the benchmark against which all future space missions are compared
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/201ccassini-huygens-will-truly-be-the-benchmark-against-which-all-future-space-missions-are-compared201d
After almost twenty years in space, the Cassini spacecraft will tomorrow (15 September) make its final encounter with Saturn, ending humankind’s first detailed exploration of the ringed planet.
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The Convict Hulks of Bermuda
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/06/26/the-convict-hulks-of-bermuda/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 26, 2014 I have long been interested in Bermuda. Like the island that I studied for my PhD thesis, Mauritius, it has no indigenous population.
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Keep you titbits, let’s have full equality, inclusion and representation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/07/27/keep-you-titbits-lets-have-full-equality-inclusion-and-representation/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on July 27, 2017 50 years ago today, the Sexual Offences Act became law. It partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. The ‘partial’ is important here as inequality still existed.
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Almost there now, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/17/almost-there-now/
Exploring the uniqueness of Juno's polar orbit around Jupiter.
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Emma Parker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/author/emma_parker/
Emma Parker is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Leicester. She researches gender and sexuality in postwar and contemporary literature.