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Pioneering study identifies over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/thyroid
A new study has identified over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels, shedding light on the causes of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism (underactive and overactive thyroid).
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Tuberculosis
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and is studied with respect to its microbiology and physiology at the University of Leicester by LeMID researchers.
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What can I study
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/short-courses/summer/study
Our extensive list of summer short courses
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Academic year: 2008-2009
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/seminar-series/08-09
Browse the speakers from the Centre for English Local History's seminar events, held in 2008-2009.
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Academic year: 2013-2014
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/seminar-series/13-14
Browse the speakers from the Centre for English Local History's seminar events, held in 2013-2014.
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Next step for Pioneer Park development
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/next-step-for-pioneer-park-development
Work that will pave the way for the development of a space park at Leicester’s Pioneer Park could get under way in spring next year.
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New edition of book detailing the architecture of University of Leicester published
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/book-detailing-the-architecture-of-university-of-leicester-published-in-new-edition
The architectural histories of the University of Leicester and De Montfort University are detailed side by side in a new book by a respected architecture expert and graduate of Leicester.
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Search for Asian Radio Recordings and Memories in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/search-for-asian-radio-recordings-and-memories-in-leicester
In the late 1970s and the 1980s two thirds of the Asian population in Leicester listened to the Six O’clock Show on BBC Radio Leicester.
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800000 project investigates the human cost of war
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/ps800-000-project-investigates-the-human-cost-of-war
The human cost of civil wars is to be investigated in a four-year project entitled 'Welfare, Conflict and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars,1642-1700’ funded by a major grant of over £800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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The hunt for the Christmas meteorite
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-hunt-for-the-christmas-meteorite
An article by the BBC discussing a 4.5bn-year 'Christmas meteorite' - the biggest to hit the UK - which crashed on Christmas Eve, 1965, in the village of Barwell in Leicestershire has quoted Dr Leigh Fletcher from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.