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• Researcher lands £250k funding to continue investigation into DNA damage and its link to cancer

  Date: 10 Mar 2023

  /news/2023/march/amanda-chaplin

  A university researcher has been awarded a prestigious prize to continue her cutting-edge work to understand how the body responds to DNA damage...

• Animals’ ‘sixth sense’ more widespread than previously thought

  Date: 22 Feb 2023

  /news/2023/february/animal-magnetic

  A study using fruit flies, led by researchers at The Universities of Leicester and Manchester, suggests the animal world’s ability to sense a...

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor speaks to Government Select Committee about alternative to antibiotics

  Date: 21 Feb 2023

  /news/2023/february/martha-clokie

  Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Professor of Microbiology Martha Clokie, spoke to MPs about the potential use of phages to fight bacterial infections.

• Phage film receives UK debut at Â鶹ÊÓƵ

  Date: 27 May 2022

  /news/2022/may/salt-in-my-soul-screening

  More than 100 researchers, clinicians, and members of the public from across the UK gathered at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ for the screening of...

• Openness in animal research among UK’s best

  Date: 23 May 2022

  /news/2022/may/leader-in-openness

  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ has once again been named as one of the UK’s ‘Leaders in Openness’ by national body Understanding Animal Research.

• Leicester to host first UK screening of acclaimed documentary

  Date: 25 Apr 2022

  /news/2022/april/salt-in-my-soul

  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ will host the first UK screening of an internationally-acclaimed documentary telling the story of a young woman’s...

• Research identifies new family of marine ‘megaphages’

  Date: 21 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/marine-megaphages

  Microbiologists have identified a new family of marine megaphages which could change understanding of Earth’s carbon and nitrogen cycles.

• New cell treatment could combat ageing

  Date: 13 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/senescent-cell-clearance

  An international team of researchers have identified a new method for clearing senescent cells, which could transform treatments for ageing and...

• Wellcome boost for structural biologists

  Date: 23 Jun 2021

  /news/2021/june/wellcome-trust-awards

  Leicester researchers studying our molecular machinery have been awarded £3.89 million in research funding by the Wellcome Trust.

• Moles hate eating sand, Leicester research reveals

  Date: 27 Aug 2020

  /news/2020/august/moles

  Anyone who has had their day at the beach ruined by the sound and sensation of biting into a sandy sandwich can look to the humble mole for ways...