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The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter
The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...
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Gene inheritance for higher education
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/gene-inheritance/gene-inheritance-higher-education
Observations of the way traits, or characteristics, are passed from one generation to the next in the form of identifiable phenotypes probably represent the oldest form of genetics. Find out more about this topic through The University of Leicester.
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Stem cells collected in late pregnancy herald advances in prenatal medicine
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/stem-cells
Pioneering approach, developed by researchers with key input from the University of Leicester, means human development can be observed in late pregnancy for the first time
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Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
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DNA analysis
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics/dna-analysis
Simply extracting the DNA from the remains wouldn’t tell us the identity of the individual. It requires comparing DNA from the skeletal remains with that of known relatives.
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Precision medicine
https://le.ac.uk/lung-health/research/precision-medicine
Much of the work carried out by the Respiratory Theme falls under the description of Precision Medicine.
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University celebrates a beauti-fall AutumnFest at the Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/autumn
More than 1,800 people came together at the Botanic Garden on Saturday (30 September) to celebrate the University’s inaugural AutumnFest
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Conversations with… Dr Simon Vaughan
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/08/conversations-with-dr-simon-vaughan/
Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 October 2020 Dr Simon Vaughan is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, as well as being one of the two Academic Directors of the School, written by Emily Baldwin.
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Work for Us
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/about/work
If you are interested in joining one of the world's leading research intensive universities to deliver significant and transformative advances in a wide range of areas of Structural and Chemical Biology, Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, Regulation of gene...
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Making Sense of the Past (Critical Thinking in Archaeology)
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1010
Module code: AR1010 This module focuses on how we make sense of archaeological evidence. It looks critically at the processes that we go through to take the evidence we excavate and turn it into the narratives and interpretations we present about the past.