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• Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2

  New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...

• UK Space Agency backs Space Park Leicester based start-up

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/messium-space-park

  Agri-tech start-up Messium based at Space Park Leicester has been accepted on to one of the UK Space Agency’s most prestigious business support programmes

• New DNA origami technique promises breakthroughs in medicine

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/dna-origami

  Scientists have developed an innovative method to customise and strengthen DNA origami structures, which could lead to advances in medicine, biotechnology, and beyond

• ‘Urgent help’ is required to drive down COVID-19 death rates among ethnic minority communities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/covid-19-among-ethnic-minorities

  The disproportionate rates of COVID-19 related deaths among people from ethnic minorities is ‘alarming’ and requires ‘urgent attention’ researchers have said.

• School Research Seminars

  https://le.ac.uk/arts/news/events/school-research-seminars

  Find out more about our programme of internal research seminars

• Weight re-gained after weight loss results in less muscle, more fat, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/overweight

  A Leicester study that measured the fat mass and fat-free (muscle) mass of dieters suggests that weight loss followed by weight regain has a negative impact on muscle mass.

• The miniature car created by a group of students that could change the future of driverless cars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/the-miniature-car-created-by-a-group-of-students-that-could-change-the-future-of-driverless-cars

  A group of final year Engineering students, supervised by Dr Alistair McEwan, have developed a miniature autonomous drive-by-wire vehicle which will provide knowledge that could speed up the development of driverless cars.

• Trial success for less invasive life-saving cardiac procedure

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/tavi

  A nationwide study led by Leicester academics has shown that a less invasive procedure to treat a common heart problem is just as effective as open-heart surgery.

• Cricket Country shortlisted for prestigious non-fiction prize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/cricket-country-shortlisted

  A book by a Leicester academic exploring the untold history of the first All India cricket team has been shortlisted as one of six entries for the Wolfson History Prize 2020.

• Sir David Attenborough to commemorate the beginnings of the University of Leicester on Armistice Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/01-centenary-square

  centenary graphics 200|Story of the founding of Leicester's first university to be remembered on Sunday 11 November.