1971 results for 'research'
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- 10 January 2020
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- University | Health
Senior leaders from Cancer Research UK visited the University today to find out how Leeds researchers are working together in the battle against the disease.
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- 8 January 2020
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- Working with business | Business & Economy
Politicians and stakeholders from the farming sector will today hear from a leading Leeds professor on the future of trade regulation and how Brexit will impact future UK agricultural policy.
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- 8 January 2020
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- Health
A survey of yogurt ingredients show that sugar levels have significantly decreased in the last two years, but concerns about overall nutritional content remain.
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- 31 December 2019
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- Science | Environment
A new centre will enable 50 fully-funded PhD researchers to harness satellite data to tackle global environmental challenges.
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- 23 December 2019
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- Society & Politics | Science
The deaf community risks being excluded from aspects of modern science because the number of new advances is outpacing the development of sign language to explain them, a leading researcher says.
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- 19 December 2019
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- Health
Walking and cycling to work were associated with fewer heart attacks across 43 million adults in England, according to a new national study.
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- 18 December 2019
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- News | Business & Economy
There is no ‘I’ in team - as the saying goes. But new research suggests it is important for individuals to feel personal ownership towards a team project in order to be more creative.
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- 17 December 2019
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- Working with business | Technology | News
A spin-out company that uses advanced computer simulation to help organisations devise more efficient ways of working, has secured £750,000 in scale-up funding.
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- 16 December 2019
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- University
November's round-up of some of the latest research and education stories from the University.
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- 10 December 2019
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- Science | Environment
New research strongly suggests the distinct "oxygenation events" which created Earth’s breathable atmosphere happened spontaneously, rather than as a consequence of biological or tectonic revolutions.
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- 6 December 2019
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- Science | Health
Research which has identified a way of making a safer and cheaper polio vaccine is to be scaled-up – to see if it could be used in commercial vaccine production.
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- 5 December 2019
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- Working with business | Science
A University of Leeds spin-out company has secured £3.14m to develop a next generation drug that aims to prevent blood clots forming, without the risk of bleeding present in currently available drugs.
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- 29 November 2019
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- Business & Economy | Society & Politics
The retail bonanza set to begin today, Black Friday, is expected to see more than half of shoppers buying electronic goods and almost a third purchasing clothes.
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- 28 November 2019
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- Science | Working with business
Precision nutrition and 24-hour monitoring will enable scientists to provide new insights for the pig industry, as the University of Leeds opens the National Pig Centre today.
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- 27 November 2019
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- Science | Environment
According to new research nearly 40 percent of global land plant species can be categorized as very rare, and these species are most at risk of extinction as climate and land use continues to change.