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Ten-foot tall microscopes helping combat world’s worst diseases
The century-long mission to understand how the proteins which underpin amyloid-based diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s has taken major steps forward in the last 12 months.
Estimated 8000 women die due to unequal heart attack care
More than 8,200 women in England and Wales could have survived their heart attacks had they been given the same quality of treatment as men, according to new research.
Low-cost drugs provide hope for bowel cancer prevention
Both aspirin and a purified omega-3, called EPA, reduce the number of pre-cancerous polyps in patients found to be at high risk of developing bowel cancer, according to new research.
Genetic breakthrough in eye disease
Gene editing has been used to fix broken retinal cells in a laboratory setting.
Final year dental students win Beaumont Award
Three of our final year undergraduate students, Jessica Fletcher, Katie McDonald-Meyer and Jaimin Patel, have won the University of Leeds Beaumont UG research award.