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Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation
Science, Maths & Technology

Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation

...research focuses on protein aggregation when this deglycosylation is impaired, and how the cell copes with this aggregated material. NGLY1 is the first and so far, only disorder of deglycosylation discovered. N-glycanase is active in all cells in the body and the symptoms caused by its loss can affect the whole body. Typical symptoms include difficulty in walking and...
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30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...researchers, many of whom have research and teaching interests around small businesses, social enterprises, innovation and entrepreneurship. The Open University Business School is actively developing new approaches to digital engagement that will continue to promote the core aims of the Quarterly Survey while also expanding its reach to a wider audience. For a copy of the...
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Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people

...Centres and Young Offender Institutions (the later hold around 70% of all children in custody). From 2006 - 2016, 197 child life sentences were handed down. The average age of the person at the time of sentencing is 16 years, but life sentences have been handed down in this period to children as young as 13. Of the 28 different countries in the European Union in 2018,...
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Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...children is a much more nuanced relationship with the Bunny brand...In recent years the Playboy brand has come to represent what has been emotively called the 'sexualisation of childhood' or even 'corporate paedophilia'. These terms put a particularly gloomy spin on the fact that children are becoming consumers in their own right, suggesting that they are being...
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Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media
Society, Politics & Law

Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media

...children’s physical and mental health is perhaps one of the greatest challenges. Young children cannot distinguish between advertising and editorial or entertainment content... Yet among all this debate about how social media has changed our lives, children’s exposure to advertising on social media is rarely discussed. This is ironic, as advertising pays for social...
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I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...research on infidelity with Dr Andreas Vosser and Naomi Moller...[I-spy research] 1. Online survey on perspectives and experiences of Internet infidelity (Vossler & Moller) This recent study by two psychology academics at The Open University is the first in the UK which asked people with experience of internet infidelity how it impacted them, providing a fascinating...
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What do scientists really do? My experience interviewing researchers
Science, Maths & Technology

What do scientists really do? My experience interviewing researchers

...research and do at the university...Written by Inka Maskiewicz and edited by Grace Richards My name is Inka and I am currently in Year 11, about to sit my GCSE exams. I've been participating in the Girls’ Network Programme for a year now, which is set up to match high school students like me with mentors who share their interests and can help develop their career goals....
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