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Introducing UCL Press Play! A new initiative sharing @ucl research in videos and podcasts, the inaugural series The Greatest Good explores the influence of Jeremy Bentham. Read more and watch the flagship documentary, Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty: uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-pl...
New Led By Donkeys excellent video on the draconian limitations to peaceful protest in the UK www.instagram.com/p/DA5fEggokJj/
7,480 likes, 231 comments - ledbydonkeys on October 9, 2024: "It’s time for Labour to remember its roots and reinstate the right to peaceful protest. Thanks to @chrisgpackham2 for the narration".
Collections researcher: Full-time, 12 month contract at the Migration Museum,, Lewisham: £35,000, plus matched 5% pension contribution. Help the Museum develop a 'dispersed collection' on British migration for its permanent home. Deadline 20 October 2024:
The Migration Museum is seeking a Collections Researcher to play a pivotal role in helping us to develop a ‘dispersed collection’ around migration themes and to define our heritage focus as we work to...
Interesting article on the current struggles of 23andMe and future potential for personal genetic data misuse
Receptor rearrangement, naive T cells, selection, clonal expansion, effector T cells, apoptosis, contraction, memory T cells, reactivation. Difficult terms if you are not familiar with them. But important to familiarise with the meaning to understand some immunology. 1/8
“I can eat sugar now". A 25-yr-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin after a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells (extracted from her own body). Follows similar type 2 diabetes success. www.nature.com/articles/d41... by Smriti Mallapaty | Nature
She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.