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5 benefits of giving up alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 benefits of giving up alcohol

...working organ is so vital, aiding over 500 of your body's processes. To name just a few, it regulates blood clotting, removes bacteria and contaminants, fights infection and maintains your hormones, minerals and vitamins. There are many short- and long-term effects on your body when you drink alcohol. To gain a deeper understanding on how alcohol affects the human body,...
Struggling in silence: Why we need to talk about autistic people’s experiences of menstruation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Struggling in silence: Why we need to talk about autistic people’s experiences of menstruation

...work-related tasks, as the physical, emotional and organisational demands of periods are overwhelming. [Five pink floral wrapped sanitary pads] Menstruation shouldn’t be seen as a taboo topic for us to shy away from discussing – periods are a normal part of the human experience, but also one that can be profoundly distressing, particularly for people with sensory...
From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...work was later exposed as fraudulent; the paper was retracted and his medical licence revoked. Extensive international research has since shown conclusively that there is no link between MMR and autism. Yet the damage continues. Vaccination rates dropped, outbreaks of preventable disease followed, and some children died or suffered serious complications. Since then, other...
Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system
Science, Maths & Technology

Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system

...for as little as £10. CRISPR/Cas9 reduces weeks of work into a matter of days. It is this combination of cost, time and efficiency that have made CRISPR/Cas9 a revolutionary technology. CRISPR/Cas9 is now being introduced as a standard technique in laboratories around the world and its future impact on biology and medicine is beyond estimation. More on genome editing...
Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...and McPherson, E. (2025) ‘Black student experience on an introductory STEM module: Closing the awarding gap by listening to our Black students’. In: The 13th eSTEeM Annual Conference Proceedings: Sharing Best Practice - Implementing What Works (edited by Pawley, S. and Chang, D.), 10-11 April 2024, The Open University, UK. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00102266...
Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing
Science, Maths & Technology

Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing

...works) is referred to as ‘gene knock-out’. The genome editing process The “basic” genome editing techniques take advantage of error-prone DNA repair mechanisms to knock-out a selected gene. The individual genome editing techniques have their own details, but their concepts are similar. In each case, special molecules called endonucleases act as “molecular...
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...working separately from the project team. The project sponsor is the individual who has responsibility for ensuring that: appropriate governance mechanisms are in place for the project project assurance processes take place through periodic monitoring of the governance mechanism. The monitoring may be by the project sponsor themselves, or by someone to whom the authority...
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...work or for leisure, this free course will introduce you to one of the most widely spoken languages in the world – Spanish. Whether this is the first time that you are learning Spanish, or you have already picked up some words and phrases from travelling across the Spanish-speaking world, this course is for you. This introduction offers the perfect opportunity to...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs