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Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...research area. In this course you will learn the underlying chemistry behind both uses of metal-containing compounds and see their major impact on human health....Metals in medicine: Introduction - This free course, Metals in medicine, is comprised of two parts, which illustrate the key role metals play in medicine. The main focus of sections 1 – 3 is the role metals...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How are scientists testing for the growth of antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How are scientists testing for the growth of antibiotic resistance?

...research scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. To find out, he and his colleagues ran an “evolution experiment,” growing a strain of bacteria sensitive to a bacteriocin in the presence of a strain that produces the bacteriocin but is itself immune to it. By repeatedly transferring bacteria to fresh growth media, they were able to follow the bacteria for...
What should we watch out for as Trump meets Xi?
Society, Politics & Law

What should we watch out for as Trump meets Xi?

...research (with fellow economists Giovanni Peri and Gianmarco Ottaviano) has highlighted the economic risks of miscalculating on trade deals, particularly those with developing countries. A tricky trade balance Trump has a difficult political balancing act to maintain. On the one hand, 85 percent of Republicans believe that trade has cost more U.S. jobs than it has...
Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...Research has demonstrated that survivors that come forward to report sexual violence struggle to be seen as credible victims of crime by police officers. Reporting sexual violence is particularly challenging for communities who are targets of state harassment, including poor and working-class black and minority ethnic, queer, transgender and non-binary groups and sex...
Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...research fellow in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and I want to share my excitement with you over this 1920s Transport and General Workers Union banner. It’s a dockside branch banner and the Dockers have quite a history of protest from a mass strike of unskilled and skilled workers in the late 1880s (the struggle against casualization and for a daily living...
Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...researchers, government and business. However, a dataset of the right information compiled using consistent methods allows us to estimate the benefits of urban trees thereby answering a number of critical questions that would help to leverage more funding support to protect our urban forests. In June 2019 the Geospatial Commission awarded funding for members of the...
STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...research initiatives from 2014, took a lead role in establishing a Trailblazing Group with the UK Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Reynolds et al., 2020). The Institute has given approval for a new occupational role and associated Level 7 (postgraduate) systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship (STPA) and the OU launches its own STPA programme in...
What do Europe's new data rules mean for children online?
Education & Development

What do Europe's new data rules mean for children online?

...complaint is being rectified, for the first author has just been awarded a grant from the ICO to research exactly this – so, watch this space. But much else remains confusing and unresolved, making the ICO’s currently-open consultation all the more important. Please respond! This article originally appeared on the LSE Media Policy blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence...