One of the earliest general anaesthetics to be used by the medical profession, chloroform, has shed light on a mystery that’s puzzled doctors for more than 150 years – how such anaesthetics actually work.

A Nobel prizewinner and Britain’s first Asian woman peer are among six people to be honoured by the University of Leeds at ceremonies on 10 and 11 July 2008. The University has agreed to confer honorary degrees on Mark Byford, Professor Albert Fert, Baroness Flather, Sir Christopher Rose, Martin Scicluna and Polly Toynbee.

A tiny, highly sensitive device that could give medics a head start in testing for a range of diseases is being developed by engineers at the University of Leeds.

A £10 million Academy that will train the next generation of multi-skilled scientists will launch in September 2008, in a partnership between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.

A tiny, highly sensitive device that will give medics a head start in testing for a range of diseases has been developed by engineers at the University of Leeds.

Far from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption – and it goes all the way to the top, according to scientists from the Universities of Leeds and Copenhagen .

A state-of-the-art theatre complex in the centre of Leeds opens its doors this month (February) with a two-week festival of cutting edge art.

A new device could put the beat back into weak hearts - and free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs.

Have you ever arrived somewhere and wondered how you got there? Scientists at the University of Leeds believe they may have found the answer, with research that shows that humans flock like sheep and birds, subconsciously following a minority of individuals.

Glow-in-the-dark moss sprouting from a plastic human brain is not something you’re likely to encounter every day.

A team at the University of Leeds has discovered a way of diagnosing pre-eclampsia, a condition which affects almost one in ten pregnant women and accounts for up to 15% of all premature deliveries.

Expertise from across the University of Leeds is to be channelled into a new research centre that aims to progress the understanding, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.