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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...research student at The Open University, looks into this here...Find out more about The Open University's Environment qualifications. “Only One Earth” is the motto of 2022’s World Environment Day . It will focus on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature, and our possibilities for shifting to a greener lifestyle. It reminds us that our planet is our only...
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Article 10 mins
Privacy in the Digital Age: Is it ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ or ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privacy in the Digital Age: Is it ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ or ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’?

...research I conducted focus groups in which an interesting ideological conflict frequently occurred between the ‘common sense’ notions of “an Englishman’s home is his castle” and “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”. This fuelled my curiosity about identifying the common-sense ideas that are relied on in contemporary negotiations around...
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Article 5 mins
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...researchers working together, in a research free from political domination and economic exploitation and marked by epistemological and ontological openness. Bibliography Asad, T. (1973) ‘Introduction’ in Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Barofsky, R. (2020) ‘Rethinking Ethnography: A Study in Public Anthropology’,...
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Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing
Science, Maths & Technology

Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing

...from understanding the function of a gene by generating genetically modified animals or cells, to gene therapy, drug research, and even agriculture. More importantly yet, the use of genome editing continues to grow and it is likely that these technologies will accelerate research, leading to important scientific breakthroughs in years to come. More on genome editing...
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Article 10 mins
Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system
Science, Maths & Technology

Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system

...research student, Sonia Azeggagh, explains the impact of this genome editing technology on biology and medicine:...CRISPR/Cas9 is a genome editing technology that has revolutionised biology. Developed in 2012 in a collaboration between the laboratories of Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR/Cas9 has allowed what were previously powerful yet time-consuming,...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...research project on ‘Migration Making Places, Making People: New Narratives of Inclusion’ together with the University of Oxford, we have worked with the Migration Museum Project and Counterpoints Arts, through to civil society and local government in order to explore these issues. In doing this we can perhaps forge new ways of understanding the complex ways in which...
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Article 15 mins
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...research shows that by the age of 10 years, children have access to five different screens at home (Richardson, 2012). But in what ways does this impact a child’s physical activity levels? Is screen time always sedentary and does it always discourage physical activity? [Described image] Figure 3 Two young girls playing on a tablet Some academic studies have linked the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...research away from a strategy based purely on potency against the isolated target protein. It begins with practical, multidisciplinary, laboratory work leading to the identification of candidate molecules that are evaluated in large multinational clinical trials. The escalating costs are mirrored by the increasing demand for supply of the compound as development work...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs