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• Â鶹ÊÓƵ joins TechxFest in inspiring 100s of children to explore the world of technical careers

  Date: 11 Oct 2023

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  Technical staff from Space Park Leicester and the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology attended the UK’s first event dedicated to showcasing...

• 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...

• Learn some showstopper science with Bake Off stars

  Date: 4 Feb 2025

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  Dr Josh Smalley is joined by 2022 Great British Bake Off winner Dr Syabira Yusoff for an online event on 11 February that will explore the science...

• Scientists investigate if red grape chemical can keep bowel cancer at bay

  Date: 11 Nov 2024

  /news/2024/november/karen-brown

  Trial led by Â鶹ÊÓƵ scientists is giving participants resveratrol as a potential prevention drug for bowel cancer.

• Biology unlikely to drive ethnic differences in COVID-19 risk for healthcare workers, study finds

  Date: 22 Dec 2021

  /news/2021/december/covid-biology

  The differences in COVID-19 infection risk between ethnic minority healthcare workers and their White colleagues is likely due to home and work...

• Bake-Off contestant shows science is as easy as pi at Â鶹ÊÓƵ

  Date: 24 Mar 2025

  /news/2025/march/bake-off-contestant-science-pi

  Science Kitchen hosts 2021 Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Jüergen Krauss for a pie-making workshop

• Expert opinions cover the eight principles underlying tumour growth

  Date: 20 Apr 2016

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  PhD student Mohan Harihar from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology has written an article for Think: Leicester explaining the eight...

• Bake off finalist examines festive favourites under the microscope

  Date: 11 Dec 2024

  /news/2024/december/josh-nottingham

  Leicester chemistry researcher and Bake off 2023 finalist Josh Smalley visits the University of Nottingham to put his bakes under the microscope

• Expert opinions cover Brexit football hooliganism and the aging process

  Date: 20 Jun 2016

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  Professor Clare Anderson from the School of History has written an article discussing some of the positive benefits of EU membership and how it is...

• Reproduction and gene shuffling in malaria parasites: how does it work?

  Date: 4 Aug 2023

  /news/2023/august/malaria

  Scientists from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have received nearly £600,000 to research how sexual development and gene shuffling...