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The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...DNA sequence – can be inherited, and it’s thought these may explain how intergenerational transmission of trauma occurs. In August 2015, Yehuda and colleagues published a study of Holocaust survivors that showed, for the first time in humans, that parental trauma experienced before conception can cause epigenetic changes in both parent and child. These findings are...
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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...DNA. There is a theory that if something like cold water immersion is to be having a negative effect on adaptation, it may be because we are switching off some of the genes that are associated with muscle hypertrophy. LANCE WALKER: We’re close, but we haven’t figured it out yet, and wow, what if we could rewrite some of those curves? What if we could rewrite the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...DNA for making us overweight. “The prevalence of obesity started to rise quite sharply in the 1980s,” says Nestle. “Genetics did not change in that ten- or twenty-year period. So genetics can only account for part of it.” Instead, researchers are beginning to attribute much of the variation to the trillions of tiny creatures that line the coiled tubes inside our...
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COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...DNA or RNA) and synthesising proteins. In step-3: New viruses are assembled within the infected cell, by packaging the viral genome inside new viral particles. Step-4 shows the new virus particles being released by budding from the surface of the infected cell, or in some cases directly killing the infected cell to allow escape. The virus can now spread to new cells...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...DNA strands that sit in the nucleus of every living cell. Genes are in effect biochemical codes that, through a variety of mechanisms, control and shape the development and operation of cells and thus in turn whole organisms. Moreover, when cells divide their DNA passes on to the new cells. When organisms sexually reproduce, the DNA of both parents is combined and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...DNA companies and travelled to Antigua to try and find out what part of Africa my ancestors were taken from, or what my family name might have been prior to having it quashed by that of my family’s plantation owners, I am no wiser with regards to where I come from or where I belong. [Windrush Monument by Basil Watson, Waterloo station]National Windrush Monument by Basil...
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Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...DNA, is held in the nucleus. The cell is surrounded by a cell membrane that protects the cell from the environment outside. Also within the cell are structures called organelles, which can be considered to be the cellular machinery. For example, the machinery that creates fuel to help the cell perform its functions. In the bacterial cell, the DNA is not contained within a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...DNA), which has a key role in directing the workings of the cell. Figure 1d is a hugely magnified view of just one of the secretory cells shown in (c) - a single sample of the many millions of cells that comprise the mammary gland. Magnification on this scale requires the use of an electron microscope, as opposed to the less powerful optical light microscope used for...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs