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New test could help preserve endangered gibbon populations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gibbons-twycross-genetic-endangered
A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable Gibbon populations from extinction
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The stamp: a classic object in the development of education?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/stamp
Read the article "The stamp: a classic object in the development of education?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Researcher lands £250k funding to continue investigation into DNA damage and its link to cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/amanda-chaplin
A university researcher has been awarded a prestigious prize to continue her cutting-edge work to understand how the body responds to DNA damage that can ultimately lead to cancer.
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Kinchega Archaeological Research Project
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/people-and-places/kinchega-archaeological-research-project
Project page for the University of Leicester's Kinchega Archaeological Research Project
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Debating Crimea
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/03/27/debating-crimea/
Posted by Olga Suhomlinova in School of Business Blog on March 27, 2014 Dr Olga Suhomlinova, Lecturer in Management at the School, responds to a question which she now finds herself expected to answer “So, what do you think about Crimea?” This is the most frequent question I...
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AboutUs
https://le.ac.uk/top-links-about-us
Leicester probably started as a Celtic settlement. It was the capital of the local Celtic tribe, the Coriletavi. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and they captured Leicestershire by 47 AD. The Romans built a fort at Leicester in 48 AD.
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Mathematical modelling
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/mathematical-modelling
Mathematical models combine the highly sought after skills of Mathematicians, computer technologists and Scientists; providing a platform to study the mechanisms of diseases spread, predicting outcomes and patterns that are highly complex.
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Where is ‘The NHS’? Saving Public Health Care Depends on Challenging Our Popular Imagination
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/09/13/where-is-the-nhs-saving-public-health-care-depends-on-challenging-our-popular-imagination/
Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on September 13, 2018 In this post, Dr Oz Gore, Lecturer in Innovation, Technology and Operations in ULSB, discusses his research on the NHS and, in the wake of ‘its’ 70th birthday, the gap between how we...
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Digitising oral history recordings
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/community-resources/digitising
With analogue becoming more of a thing of the past, learn more about recording and keeping digital copies of oral history materials.
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Research identifies new family of marine ‘megaphages’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/marine-megaphages
Dr Andrew Millard, Associate Professor of Bacteriophage Bioinformatics at the University of Leicester and corresponding author for the study published in ISME Communications, said: “From our previous work on cyanophages, we know phages have important roles in biogeochemical...