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Geneticist in major project to breed new varieties of wheat
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Our University has been included in one of three high-value, long-term research projects totalling £13.
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Bake Off star rustles up a recipe for chemistry success with new campus science kitchen
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A Great British Bake Off star has used his expertise to cook up a scientific kitchen at the University of Leicester.
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Cat-ching criminals with DNA from pet hairs
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Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to researchers from the University of Leicester.
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Pioneering study identifies over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels
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A new study has identified over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels, shedding light on the causes of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism...
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Earliest evidence of wine consumption in the Americas found in Caribbean
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Earliest evidence of wine drinking in the Americas found in Caribbean pottery vessels by team involving the University of Leicester
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Nobel Prize winner on campus
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One of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was visiting the University of Leicester campus - on the day of the announcement of the...
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Lecture series launched in memory of eminent microbiologist
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A pioneering cellular microbiologist from the Pasteur Institute in Paris will deliver the inaugural lecture of the University of Leicester’s...
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Pancakes, and how life flipped upside down for Leicester’s Bake-Off chemist
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Dr Josh Smalley from the University of Leicester School of Chemistry has been keeping busy since his appearance on the Great British Bake Off.
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Project to investigate genetic roots of resistance to anti-cancer therapy agents
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The mechanisms that cause cancers to respond poorly to therapy are to be investigated in a project that commemorates and honours the work of an...
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Leicester scientists take sustainable energy research to Parliament
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PhD student Manon Lachmann joins supervisor Dr Patricia Rodriguez-Macia to showcase green chemistry to a panel of experts and politicians on 4 March