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Revolutionary new treatment set to transform lives of severe asthma sufferers
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The future for people suffering from severe asthma is looking bright after a Leicester-based research team confirm the benefits of a...
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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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University of Leicester archives uncover accounts of the supernatural
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Âé¶¹APP has uncovered a series of spooky documents and images from its Library archives.
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Spooky flower will bloom in time for Hallowe’en
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The spookily-named Corpse Flower is about to bloom in the University’s Botanic Garden – just in time for Hallowe’en.
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Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds
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University of Leicester astronomers confirm the existence of an infrared (IR) aurora on Uranus, providing insights into how magnetic field on ice...
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University of Leicester and Birmingham Museums Trust join forces to tackle museum attendance and benefit
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The Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) will host a series of public workshops to address the museum attendance and benefit gap.
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The term “antimicrobial resistance†has little meaning to the public and should be renamed
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The public is failing to take antimicrobial resistance seriously and it could all be down to the scientific terminology used.
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Diabetes researcher listed as a top ethnic minority health leader in England
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A Leicester-based professor known as ‘Mr South Asian diabetes’ has been named as one of England’s most prominent individuals from an ethnic...
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Leicester starts initiative with Apollo to transform global healthcare
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University of Leicester signs Memorandum of Understanding with one the world’s largest integrated healthcare service providers, The Apollo...
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James Webb Space Telescope makes first detection of heavy element from star merger
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Merger of neutron stars that generated an explosion that created a gamma-ray burst identified.