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Developing a Cancer Vaccine: Promising Progress in Perugia, Italy
Researchers in Perugia, Italy have made significant progress in developing a cancer vaccine as an alternative to traditional treatments like radio and chemotherapy. By stimulating the immune response with a molecule called CD 28, they...
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Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Detection: The Promise of Digital Thomas Synthesis Mammography
Digital Thomas synthesis is a new type of mammogram that uses 3D imaging to detect breast cancer more accurately. Unlike conventional mammograms, which only capture one angle at a time, this technology takes images from 11 different...
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Short and Long-Term Health Risks of Smoking
Smoking in teens not only leads to addiction but also poses both immediate and long-term health risks. Learn about the many harmful effects of smoking from coughing and shortness of breath to cancers and coronary heart disease....
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How to Stop Aging (and Should We?)
What is the future of aging? People aren’t dying as early or as easily as they used to. Innovations in medicine, health, and hygiene have helped us extend our lives by decades, but what comes next? Would you rather live to be a hearty...
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Factpack: Fruit Flies
Discover how the humble fruit fly is helping scientists to fight Parkinson's disease and even cancer. Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. A Twig FactPack Film. Open a discussion on what has been already learnt in a topic, or use...
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Factpack: Bacteria
Find out about these tiny life-forms that have the potential to determine the big things in life, such as whether we live or die. Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. A Twig FactPack Film. Open a discussion on what has been already...
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Harmful Drugs: Cannabis
Cannabis is a controversial drug: there are debates around its production, legal status and use. What are the facts behind the use of this drug, and how safe or dangerous is it? Biology - Healthy Living - Cannabis is a mild sedative and...
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Harmful Drugs
Some drugs are used recreationally, with potentially harmful consequences. Find out which drugs are used inappropriately and the harm they can cause. Biology - Healthy Living - Learning Points. Drugs affect the chemical processes in our...
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The Elements: Radium
Learn why radium is so radioactive it can both cause and cure cancer. Chemistry - Periodic Table - Learning Points. Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898. Radium is a product of the radioactive decay of uranium. Exposure to...
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What is Cancer?
Cancers claim more lives every year than any other disease, and come in many forms such as lung cancer, bowl cancer and breast cancer. Why are cancers so deadly and how can we treat them? Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. There...
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Obesity - Global Health Issue
Over 500 million people suffer from obesity worldwide, posing a significant risk to health. Discover how a combination of fat rich diets and lack of exercise are at the root of the problem. Biology - Healthy Living - Learning Points....
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Smoking: The Damage
Find out more about the range of toxins in cigarettes and the serious damage they can cause to smoker's lungs. Biology - Human Body - Learning Points. Cigarette smoke damages the lungs. The chemicals in cigarettes irritate the lung...
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Chernobyl Disaster
In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. What caused the explosion and why has Chernobyl become a lasting reminder of the dangers of nuclear power? Earth Science - Earth's Resources - Learning Points. The world's first...
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Plants and Medicine
Discover how artichokes, garlic and poppies play important roles in medicine, pain management and the treatment of disease. Biology - Plants - Learning Points. The medicinal properties of plants have saved countless lives. Over half of...
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The Ozone Layer
The world has already faced a major global climate challenge: the hole in the ozone layer, discovered in 1985. Find out what ozone is, why it's important, and how the ozone hole is being repaired. Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning...
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Nanotechnology: Is It Safe?
Nanotechnology is already widely used, but some scientists are warning it could prove dangerous in future. Why? Chemistry - Atoms And Bonding - Learning Points. Nanomaterials take on very different properties to their larger particles....
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Tasmanian Devil
Find out why the Tasmanian devil is fighting for its life and facing extinction... Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. The Tasmanian devil is a small, carnivorous marsupial. Tasmanian devils are native to the Australian...
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The Dark Side of Oxygen
We depend on oxygen for life. But in fact, oxygen is corrosive: ageing us, damaging cell DNA, and 'rusting' us from the inside. Biology - Human Body - Learning Points. Oxygen is vital in powering every cell and process in the human body....
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What's in a Cigarette?
Discover the scale and effects of the chemical ingredients in cigarettes. What are smokers breathing in to their lungs, and what effects are these chemicals having on them? Biology - Healthy Living - When a cigarette is burned it...
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Dangers of smoking
Warning: Contains footage of smoking. Why do so many people smoke when the risk to their health is so high? Life processes - Humans and other animals - Drug awareness Learning Points Smoking damages health. Smoking increases the...
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The Chernobyl Disaster: A Nuclear Catastrophe
This video explores the events of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, where a reactor explosion released massive amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. Learn about the causes, the immediate response, and the long-term effects on the...
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Thomas N. Seyfried - Cancer as a Metabolic Disease
Thomas Seyfried, a professor of biology at Boston College, explains that cancer is increasingly prevalent, with over 600,000 people dying annually in the U.S. Traditionally viewed as a genetic disease, Seyfried argues that cancer is...
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Why Are the Tropics Hotter than The Equator?
The hottest parts of the world do not lie ‘on’ the Equator (as our assumption would suggest) but rather around the tropics, i.e., the areas that lie above and below the Equator. What’s the reason behind this? The answer to this question...
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¿Por qué hay niñas y niños que padecen cáncer?
¿Es diferente el cáncer infantil a otras formas de este padecimiento? ¿Se puede prevenir? ¿Cuáles son las probabilidades de superarlo? CRÉDITOS: Guión: Tonatiuh Moreno o Mariana González Ilustraciones: Ruy Fernando Estrada /...