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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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University of Leicester building officially reopened as Kathleen Kenyon Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/kathleen-kenyon-building-naming-ceremony
The University of Leicester's home for the School of Archaeology and Ancient History and the School of Museum Studies has been named after Dame Kathleen Kenyon.
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Deck the halls with Christmas lights all the way to space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/18-deck-halls-christmas-lights-space
A house illuminated with Christmas lights|University of Leicester students have calculated how many Christmas lights are needed to decorate a house to be visible from space.
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John Ellis Jones
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/john-ellis-jones
The University is saddened to learn of the death on 28 January 2023 of Mr John Ellis Jones.
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Adrian Weston MBE
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/adrian-weston
We have learned, with regret, of the death of Mr Adrian Weston, who was a member of the University Council from 1999 to 2008.
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The Rosetta Stone: the first political manifesto?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/rosetta-stone
Read the article "The Rosetta Stone: the first political manifesto?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Aubrey Newman lecture series
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/events/aubrey-newman
Learn more about the annual Aubrey Newman lecture series, initiated in 2006 to honour Professor Aubrey Newman, founder of the Stanley Burton Centre in 1992.
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Adele Parks: My time at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/english/about/famous-names/adele-parks
Find out what bestselling author Adele Parks remembers about her time studying English at the University of Leicester.
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Professor Yuri Dubrova
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/yuri-dubrova
It was with great sadness that we have learned of the death of our colleague and friend Professor Yuri Dubrova who passed away on 26 January 2023.
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Mutation and adaption for higher education
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/microbial-sciences/mutation-and-adaption/higher-education
Learn more about horizontal gene transfer for higher education at The University of Leicester.