News

Celebrating our Women of Achievement

Published
Tuesday 1st March, 2016
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University

The University is commending its women of achievement with a special celebration today, coinciding with International Women’s Day.

Using old drugs to treat new viruses

Published
Tuesday 1st March, 2016
Categories
Health
News

A group of drugs already in everyday use to treat psychosis or depression may also be used to defeat deadly and emerging viruses.

Air quality success, but what about the impact of Brexit?

Published
Monday 29th February, 2016
Categories
Science
Environment

New research celebrates the success of EU air quality policy, at a time when such policies face an uncertain future because of Britain's European referendum.

Smoke pouring out of a tall chimney in front of the setting orange sun.

Will driverless cars increase reliance on roads?

Published
Friday 26th February, 2016
Categories
Technology

Researchers warn that driverless vehicles could intensify car use, reducing or even eliminating promised energy savings and environmental benefits.

Sale of virtual microscope technology

Published
Tuesday 23rd February, 2016
Categories
Working with business
Technology
Health

The healthcare company Roche has acquired the intellectual property and technology of the Leeds Virtual Microscope (LVM), an innovative system designed to help pathologists making cancer diagnoses.

Dr Darren Treanor shows a LVM slide on a Powerwall

Sloths’ ancestors may have crossed Atlantic

Published
Monday 15th February, 2016
Categories
Science

The family tree of the largest group of mammals—those that nourish their young with placentas—divided later than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.

Sloth

Researchers to use supercomputer to 'hack' Ebola

Published
Thursday 11th February, 2016
Categories
Science
Health

Scientists at the University of Leeds will run the equivalent of password cracking software to find the chemical keys to defeating the Ebola virus.

The Ebola virus

The benefits of worker co-operatives

Published
Wednesday 10th February, 2016
Categories
Business & Economy
Society & Politics

New research has identified the benefits of taking things into your own hands and starting a worker co-operative.

Business, meeting