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Dr Duncan Quincey, Khumbu

Published
11 April 2017
Categories
Environment

Climate change scientists are heading to the Himalayas in a bid to become the first to successfully drill through the world’s highest glacier.

Ganglia

Published
4 April 2017
Categories
Global | Science | Health

The body’s peripheral nervous system could be capable of interpreting its environment and modulating pain, neuroscientists have established, after studying how rodents reacted to stimulation.

Times Higher Student Experience Survey 2017

Published
23 March 2017
Categories
University

Leeds has been voted in the top five universities in the UK in the new Times Higher Education’s Student Experience Survey.

Waste Bangladesh

Published
22 March 2017
Categories
Environment | Health

Developing countries struggling to cope with huge volumes of human waste may finally get some relief – and a new business opportunity.

Great Hall and Parkinson Building

Published
17 March 2017
Categories
University

The Vice-Chancellor's Leader Column from the forthcoming staff magazine, the Reporter.

Coral

Published
15 March 2017
Categories
Environment

Urgent action to reduce sea temperatures is needed, as 2015-2016 saw record highs that triggered significant coral bleaching across the tropics and the Australian Great Barrier Reef.

Cancer cells

Published
8 March 2017
Categories
Health

Two key proteins involved in male breast cancer have been identified by à½à½AV scientists, potentially paving the way for more effective treatments.

Ensonglopedia, John Hinton

Published
6 March 2017
Categories
Science

Leeds Festival of Science is back, offering a range of events from songs about science to a chance to have a go at keyhole surgery.

Doctor

Published
2 March 2017
Categories
Health

Researchers at the à½à½AV are to receive a share of £5m in funding from Cancer Research UK to improve early cancer detection in GP surgeries.

Lab sample

Published
1 March 2017
Categories
Health

Concerns about the way non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is being sold by private companies are expressed in a new report published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics today.

Cancer, patient, hospital

Published
28 February 2017
Categories
Health

Lesbian, gay and bisexual people tend to report having a poorer experience as a cancer patient than heterosexual people, according to a study.

Nurse and patient

Published
27 February 2017
Categories
News | Health

Researchers from Leeds and Bradford will work together to improve the health and well-being of children and the elderly – and the safety of patients in hospitals – in a new £3million centre.

Pensioners, counselling, therapy

Published
23 February 2017
Categories
Health | News

A psychological treatment known as behavioural activation can help prevent older people with mild symptoms of depression from developing more severe, clinical, depression, a study has found.

HCM

Published
23 February 2017
Categories
Health

Scientists at the Universities of Leeds, York and Helsinki say they are a step closer to cracking what researchers have called the ‘Enigma code’ of the common cold virus.

Amazon Rainforest

Published
20 February 2017
Categories
Environment

Carbon emissions across all nine Amazon nations have been fully matched by carbon absorption by mature Amazon forests since the 1980s, new research shows.