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• AI used in battle against asbestos-linked cancer

  Date: 26 Mar 2021

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  International genomics research led by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ has used artificial intelligence (AI) to study an aggressive form of cancer,...

• Study reveals seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months post-discharge

  Date: 24 Mar 2021

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  The majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 did not fully recover five months after discharge and continued to experience...

• Leicester’s Top 5 COVID research studies

  Date: 23 Mar 2021

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  One of the top ten Universities in the UK for COVID research has highlighted its top five research projects that have had a global impact.

• Skin swabs could detect COVID-19

  Date: 16 Mar 2021

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  COVID-19 could be detected through non-invasive skin swab samples, new research published by the Universities of Leicester, Surrey and Manchester...

• Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19

  Date: 16 Mar 2021

  /news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid

  Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus,...

• Virtual clinical trials could revolutionise the way new drugs are developed

  Date: 5 Mar 2021

  /news/2021/march/in-silico-lung

  New cutting-edge research undertaken at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ could revolutionise the way new drugs are developed and the way patients are...

• Research identifies impact of teenage screen use

  Date: 5 Mar 2021

  /news/2021/march/screen-use

  Two thirds of children use more than one screen at the same time after school, in the evenings and at weekends as part of increasingly sedentary...

• Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes

  Date: 3 Mar 2021

  /news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope

  Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average...

• Leicester celebrates British Science Week with top five innovations

  Date: 3 Mar 2021

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ is celebrating this year’s theme for British Science Week (5-14 March 2021), ‘Innovating for the Future’, by...

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

  Date: 16 Feb 2021

  /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’...