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New ‘explant’ technique predicts a tumour’s responsiveness to breast cancer treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/breast-cancer
Cancer researchers at the University of Leicester have developed a technique that could predict how well some breast cancer patients will respond to chemotherapy and antibody-directed cancer treatments
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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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Toxic formaldehyde’s dual nature to be probed with new chemical tool
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/formaldehyde-cancer-tool
University of Leicester chemistry researchers have developed new compounds to better study formaldehyde
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Part of the students’ union: reflections from Strawbs founder David Cousins
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/david-cousins-interview
Strawbs founder David Cousins is interviewed by the University of Leicester about his career and his time as a student.
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Successful Verification of the First Lobster X-ray Mirror Assembly for SVOM
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/28/successful-verification-of-the-first-lobster-x-ray-mirror-assembly-for-svom/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 28 October 2020 Julian Osborne highlights the recent success of the team in the Space Research Centre that is making the flight X-ray optic for the Chinese-French satellite SVOM.
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X-ray crystallography
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/about/facilities/x-ray-crystallography
X-ray crystallography is a technique used to establish molecular structure by interpretation of diffraction data when a single crystal is placed in an X-ray beam. Find out about the diffractometer at the University of Leicester's Department of Chemistry.
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Dr Prashant Kidambi's cricket book makes 'Best of Year' list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-cricket-book
Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History, has made it into the Financial Times Sports Books of the Year list with his book Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire which tells the story of the first ‘All-India’ cricket team to go...
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Women in Space: On the Ground and Heading for the Stars – Seminar by Sue Nelson
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/03/02/women-in-space-on-the-ground-and-heading-for-the-stars-seminar-by-sue-nelson/
Women in Space: On the Ground and Heading for the Stars - Seminar by Sue Nelson
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Leicester team shows how to reduce carbon emissions from agricultural peatland
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-team-shows-how-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-from-agricultural-peatland
Raising the water table could slow down global warming, boost crop yields, and preserve peat soils according to a new study.
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University life in the 1920s revealed through historical interview
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/university-life-in-the-1920s-revealed-through-historical-interview
A new project organised by our University is making a number of oral history interviews with people who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries available online.