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Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy
Science, Maths & Technology

Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy

...anti-inflammatory drugs could stop dormant cancer cells that generate metastasis from “waking up”. If clinical trials confirm these results, we will soon be able to offer the patients treatments that specifically target dormant cancer cells. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Try a free health and social care course...
Should animals have legal standing?
Society, Politics & Law

Should animals have legal standing?

...course in reality these actions are being taken by human beings acting on behalf of the company. Why does it matter who is a ‘person’? As well as being able to enter into legal arrangements such as contracts, legal personality gives an entity the right to go to court in their own name. In previous centuries, the law upheld inequality by denying legal personhood to...
What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?
Money & Business

What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?

...course of their trusteeship. Carrying out these legal duties can in itself lead to negative publicity, such as when the Church of England chases people for payments for chancel repairs to local churches, which it has argued in the past must be done by trustees “to exercise their powers in its best interests”, or when charities such as the RSPCA are forced to defend...
Exploring comets: A short introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring comets: A short introduction

...course of ten successful missions. In 1982, a probe called ISEE-3, which had already been in space for four years, was renamed International Cometary Explorer (ICE) and re-tasked to fly past comet Giacobini-Zinner, at a minimum distance of 7,862km. The probe had no cameras on board, but other sensors gathered data on the interplay between the solar wind and the comet’s...
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...Open University's Sociology courses and qualifications [The UK government's Ending Violence against Women and Girls strategy] The 2016 strategy paper from the UK Home Office on ending violence against women and girls, introduced by the-then Home Secretary Theresa May The ‘honour’ killing of Banaz Mahmod represents the tragic consequences of the failure of state and...
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...Open University's Computing and IT courses. [Ada Lovelace] Who was Ada Lovelace? I would have bought and sent a card if only Clintons carried them. Ada Lovelace Day has been set up to commemorate the important role of women in technology. It wouldn’t be surprising if you haven’t heard of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, who must be considered the World’s...
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...open themselves for the first 13 years, until 1984 when Bunscoil Phobal Feirste was awarded official maintained status. In 2021, Bunscoil Phobal Feirste celebrated 50 years, and now, across the north, over 7,300 students attend over 30 Irish medium education schools at all levels. It really is quite the story of community resilience and hope. The growth of the Irish...
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...Open University courses But that's very much the sort of sniffy attitude which is strenuously attacked in a new book called Radical Gardening – Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden. Its author is George McKay who's Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford. He now joins me in the studio together with Tim Jordan, Senior Lecturer in Culture,...