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Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...Based on the aforementioned paradigm, it has been supposed for many years that RNAs were “junk genome”. Emerging evidence indicates that ncRNAs play important biological functions, particularly in some diseases. What was considered “junk” emerges today as a gold mine for the discovery of new important findings in biomedical research. Long non-coding RNAs: how can...
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The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...based technologies. At times, the historical debate between these two schools of thought has seemed to go around in circles, and one might ask, what could truly move our understanding forward? [William Williams' A View Of The Ironbridge] William William's A View Of The Iron Bridge - Ironbridge is often lauded as the 'birthplace of the Industrial Revolution' A new...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...based in Milton Keynes, which opened in 1969. After having been appointed as a Professor at Sussex Briggs rose to become the CEO, the Vice-Chancellor, between 1967 and 1976. Briggs was also a member of the Planning Committee of The Open University, 1967-69, chairing that body’s working group on students and curriculum. He went on to become the Chancellor of The Open...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...based on shipbuilding and linen industries whilst the rural economy of the rest of the island was poorer, with no real industrial or manufacturing base. So in addition to religious and cultural differences, protestant north east Ulster had economic reasons for wanting to divide itself from the less economically developed south. Faced with a real prospect of civil war the...
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The case for and against a second referendum
Society, Politics & Law

The case for and against a second referendum

...based on analyses that are checked and double checked, on a meaningful engagement of experts and practitioners from all sectors of society, and carried out with the explicit acknowledgement that this is the final vote on this matter. Indeed, this might well be the only way to overcome in EU Ref #2 the emotional divides caused by EU Ref #1. [The Right Honourable Tony Blair...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...based on evidence and principle. The UKLA research project Teachers as Readers suggests that this encompasses four core elements: enticing reading environments (physically and socially), a rich read aloud programme, the provision of quality time for independent choice-led reading, and space and time for informal talk about texts . In the UKLA study, many of the teachers...
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Writing your research proposal
Education & Development

Writing your research proposal

...based on how you would persuade someone with responsibility for admission onto a doctoral programme to offer you a place: What is your proposed research about & why is it worthy of three or more years of your time to study? What skills, knowledge and experience do you bring to this research – If you are considering a PhD, evidence of your suitability will be located in...
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Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...based artwork. To Ingrid's list of New York internet infrastructure they added green BT utility cabinets. You can see her work at Seeing Networks and BigBangData Lots of digital data is also carried wirelessly, and artist/designer, Timo Arnall, developed a project that makes wireless signals visible by turning them into patterns of light. Timo Arnall has also documented a...
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