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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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• New technology to revolutionise bedside tumour diagnosis in patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/new-technology-to-revolutionise-bedside-tumour-diagnosis-in-patients

  Researchers from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham are developing a revolutionary mini gamma ray camera that will improve the diagnosis of tumours and lymph nodes from patients’ bedsides.

• New project to help tailor cancer treatments for individual patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/new-project-to-help-tailor-cancer-treatments-for-individual-patients

  A new project led by Dr Julian Barwell (pictured) from the Department of Genetics hopes to help move the treatment of human disease from a 'one size fits all' approach to one of tailoring treatment to individual patients.

• PhD student develops cancer survival prediction tool

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/phd-student-develops-cancer-survival-prediction-tool

  Researchers from the Department of Health Sciences have developed an online tool which presents a variety of measures that quantify the survival of patients with cancer from different perspectives.

• Cat-ching criminals with DNA from pet hairs

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/cat-dna

  Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to researchers from the University of Leicester.

• University partners in new world-class skills centre for automotive sector

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/university-partners-in-new-world-class-skills-centre-for-automotive-sector

  Our University is partnering with HORIBA MIRA and other Midlands-based education institutions to build the MIRA Technology Institute – a new world-class skills centre for the automotive sector to be based at MIRA Technology Park.

• The origin of humans a tale of tangled roots

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/the-origin-of-humans-a-tale-of-tangled-roots

  Dr Daniel Zadik from the Department of Genetics has written an article for his blog examining evidence regarding where humans originated.