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How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...community right now: the role of the metabolism in cancer, for it turns out the tumour suppressor is a major player in this arena too. That the metabolism in cancer cells is highly abnormal is not a new discovery. In the 1920s, the German biologist and medic Otto Warburg noticed that cancer cells consume glucose at an enormous rate. He found that whereas most normal cells...
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Article 10 mins
Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...community is a very precious, symbiotic one that I personally spend an awful lot of time maintaining, and I would be a little bit worried that those same chimp images were played around with by some … anybody. So I think that’s why it’s more of a … it’s one of these things which is a brilliant idea but it’s a practical minefield. But then all good ideas are...
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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...communication. Quentin Letts: QUENTIN LETTS Well I think the problem with this whole issue is that we, the voters, are terrible hypocrites. We say we don’t like actors in our politics, and yet, when the politicians don’t act, they don’t get so many votes. So we as an electorate have to sort out our attitude to this. And I think the honest answer is that they need to...
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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...communication channels, to remember if we have asked everyone for their input, and to moderate the session. Once all the details are in the plan, I end the session with another roll call, this time asking if every member of the planning team is happy with the plan as it currently is in the system. They all respond with ‘go!’ when they find their plan in good order. I...
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Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...community. Note that once the essential steps in the synthesis of a new drug have been patented, pharmaceutical companies (and indeed companies in the fine-chemical industry generally) encourage their research workers to publish the results of their work just as researchers in academic institutions do; (b) to provide a more detailed explanation of the chemical background...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...communicate with a wide range of people, sometimes 'calling a spade a spade', and at other times describing precisely what the word 'spade' actually means. In passing from a problem towards possible solutions it is essential to be able to evaluate and quantify the technical aspects. Another general factor in the search for solutions is the use of algebra and numbers to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...communities more physically and psychologically fragile. While these problems affect both adults and children, children’s physical and social vulnerability and dependence on adults means that poor children’s rights are at greatest risk in the face of climate change. Acknowledging these inequalities means looking at climate change as a problem of social injustice, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...communication is vastly more complex than that of any other species we know about. It is so complex that linguists are only just beginning to identify the processes in the brain that are related to understanding language. This free course, From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language, looks at how language is understood by taking an interdisciplinary
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs