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• Affiliations

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  The Centre for English Local History has strong links with various organisations, trusts and centres; alongside hosting a number of resources. Learn more about our affiliations.

• Patient health not age should dictate treatment for mesothelioma University academic says

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  The conclusion of a study by a University team at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, which took place between 1999 and 2015, has suggested that age is not as important in determining treatment options for mesothelioma as previously thought.

• Plantagenet portraits in the 15th and 16th centuries: contemporary contexts for the image of Richard III, 29 May 2018

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  This lecture examined the surviving images of Richard III, in the context of the portraiture of his Plantagenet predecessors, both the tombs, manuscript illuminations and heraldic signifiers of identity that they created during their reigns, and the shaping and repurposing of...

• Discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see

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  New research led by Professor Sarah Gabbott from the Department of Geology has overturned a long-standing theory on how vertebrates evolved their eyes by identifying remarkable details of the retina in the eyes of 300 million year-old lamprey and hagfish fossils.

• The cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis for schools and colleges

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  Gene expression and regulation is useful for understanding genetic coding. Take a look at the information on offer from The Â鶹ÊÓƵ on the topic.

• Digging for Britain: Leicestershire & Rutland archaeology projects to feature on BBC 

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  Projects led by Leicester archaeologists have been showcased on the new series of BBC Two’s primetime TV series Digging for Britain.

• Researchers develop pioneering X-ray technique to analyse ancient artefacts

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  A pioneering X-ray technique that can analyse artefacts of any shape or texture in a non-destructive way has been developed by an international team of researchers led by our University.

• Guilty or not guilty Public will decide during interactive forensic science event

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  Members of the public will be deciding the outcome of two realistic criminal trials based on two real murder cases as part of an exciting interactive event during the Cheltenham Science Festival (5 – 10 June).

• Leicester astronomers observe star reborn in a flash

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  An international team of astronomers using Hubble and led by our University has been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 have been observed.

• Svenja Bethke

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  The academic profile of Dr Svenja Bethke, Associate Professor in Modern European History at Â鶹ÊÓƵ