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Treating rectal cancer during the covid-19 epidemic
Leading cancer experts have recommended a one-week course of radiotherapy and delaying surgery as the best way to treat patients with rectal cancer during the covid-19 pandemic.
Analysing student eating habits
Scientists have for the first time used anonymous data from pre-payment food cards to get a unique insight into the eating habits of first year university students.
Nature's lethal shape-shifter
Every picture tells a story… none more so than this detailed visualisation of a strain of the norovirus.
Communicating the effectiveness of flood-mitigation schemes
A team of Leeds mathematicians and French civil engineers has developed a new way of visualising and analysing complex flood-protection schemes.