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• Leicester strikes partnership with biotech experts Isogenica to develop personalised cancer treatments

  Date: 31 Jul 2023

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  Patients could benefit from bespoke cancer-fighting treatments with fewer side effects thanks to a new partnership between a biotech company and a...

• Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton

  Date: 25 Oct 2023

  /news/2023/october/fossils-plankton

  Microfossils discovered by Â鶹ÊÓƵ scientist date back half a billion years.

• Bake Off star rustles up a recipe for chemistry success with new campus science kitchen

  Date: 23 Apr 2024

  /news/2024/april/science-kitchen

  A Great British Bake Off star has used his expertise to cook up a scientific kitchen at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

• Cat-ching criminals with DNA from pet hairs

  Date: 30 Oct 2023

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  Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to researchers from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

• Pioneering study identifies over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels

  Date: 24 Oct 2023

  /news/2023/october/thyroid

  A new study has identified over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels, shedding light on the causes of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism...

• Lecture series launched in memory of eminent microbiologist

  Date: 14 Mar 2017

  /news/2017/march/lecture-series-launched-in-memory-of-eminent-microbiologist

  A pioneering cellular microbiologist from the Pasteur Institute in Paris will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s...

• Pancakes, and how life flipped upside down for Leicester’s Bake-Off chemist

  Date: 14 Feb 2024

  /news/2024/february/pancakes-josh

  Dr Josh Smalley from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Chemistry has been keeping busy since his appearance on the Great British Bake Off.

• Project to investigate genetic roots of resistance to anti-cancer therapy agents

  Date: 17 Jan 2017

  /news/2017/january/project-to-investigate-genetic-roots-of-resistance-to-anti-cancer-therapy-agents

  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...

• Leicester scientists take sustainable energy research to Parliament

  Date: 28 Feb 2024

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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

• Red squirrel and human leprosy link found at English medieval archaeological site

  Date: 7 May 2024

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  New evidence from medieval archaeological sites shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae (M.