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Blood cancer breakthrough offers clues for tailored patient treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/blood-cancer-breakthrough-offers-clues-for-tailored-patient-treatment
Patients with blood cancer could be offered a tailored course of treatment in the future, after Leicester academics successfully trialled the use of liquid biopsies to help predict how successfully patients would respond to treatment.
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Go-ahead given for business school in new city location and state-of-the-art student facilities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/go-ahead-given-for-business-school-in-new-city-location-and-state-of-the-art-student-facilities
Two developments critical to the future of our University have received the go-ahead. The projects are part of the University’s £500 million estates investment programme and construction is due to start in the coming months.
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New insight into frictionless surfaces is slippery slope to energy-efficient technology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/superlubricity-friction
Scientists led by the University of Leicester have made an insight into superlubricity, revealing that friction is reduced further at lower temperatures
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Turi King
https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/turi-king
Canadian Turi started as an archaeologist, studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, then switched to Genetics when she came to Leicester as a postgraduate.
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Chilcot How the Iraq war has led to a rise in extremism and fatally undermined the European Union
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/chilcot-how-the-iraq-war-has-led-to-a-rise-in-extremism-and-2018fatally-undermined2019-the-european-union
The Iraq war still scars us today, leading to a rise in extremism and ‘fatally undermining’ the European Union, according to Dr Robert Dover (pictured) from the Department of Politics and International Relations.
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Seeing your preferred GP is getting more difficult
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/seeing-your-preferred-gp-is-getting-more-difficult
Continuity of care – the long-term professional relationship between a patient and a chosen GP - is not only at the core of general practice but is recognised as being associated with better recognition of certain health problems, better concordance with medication, better...
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Crocus Sundays signal the arrival of spring alongside hedgehog display for children
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/crocus-sundays-signal-the-spring-alongside-hedgehog-display-for-children
The springtime blooming of crocuses in the Botanic Garden will this year be accompanied by the unusual sight of thousands of salt-dough hedgehogs in March.
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Flickering of young stars reveals previously unknown link with black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/flickering-of-young-stars-reveals-previously-unknown-link-with-black-holes
An international team of astronomers, including Dr Simon Vaughan from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has discovered a previously unknown link between the way young stars grow and the way black holes and other exotic space objects feed from their surroundings.
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Unique archaeological project reveals historic earthquake in Cyprus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/unique-archaeological-project-reveals-historic-earthquake-in-cyprus
A University of Leicester archaeology project has uncovered new information about an ancient, erosion-threatened port in Cyprus.
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Hive of activity how genes turn bees into workers and queens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/hive-of-activity-how-genes-turn-bees-into-workers-and-queens
Biologists have discovered that one of nature’s most important pollinators - the buff-tailed bumblebee – either ascends to the land of milk and honey by becoming a queen or remains a lowly worker bee based on which genes are ‘turned on’ during its lifespan.