Resources
Dropped Load Assessment in Nuclear Industry
This resource, from Mathematics for Engineering Exemplars, introduces mathematical models for the risk assessment of dropped load, which are used to analyse the safety of structures within nuclear power stations. Here students learn about the formulae which engineers use to calculate the maximum dynamic stress and...
Drosophila melanogaster
A Catalyst article about the fruit fly which has played a succession of key roles in developments in biological science over the last 100 years as a laboratory subject in genetics.
Researchers have found that many aspects of the biochemistry of fruit flies and humans are similar. It is due to the fact that...
Drug Clearance
This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring Calculus. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level.
This activity explores the rate of drug clearance from the body, both for common analgesic compounds and for caffeine.
Drug Formulation
A Catalyst article describing how a medical drug is made into a form which works well in the body. Medicines rarely contain just one pure chemical substance. The vast majority are made of a complex mixture that contains an active ingredient (the compound that has the desired effect in the body) and compounds called...
Drug Synthesis
From Nelson Thornes, these materials are aimed at A2 level students and help them to understand synthetic routes for the synthesis of some important medicines. Students are challenged to devise synthetic routes for the production of paracetamol from phenol and progesterone-like molecules for use in birth control...
Drug trials
This lesson is suitable for extending the more able KS4 students when teaching about drug trialling. They will first find out about how drug trials are carried out before applying this knowledge to write a grant application to a research council in order to fund a...
Drug Trials - the Punk Science Way
In this video, produced by the Science Museum, the Punk Science team show how drug trials are carried out. They conduct an experiment which shows the effects of melatonin, comparing the reactions of subjects who have taken a melatonin supplement or a placebo pill.
Although they provide immense benefits, drugs aren't a perfect solution: they can be expensive, they only help a proportion of patients, sometimes they harm us, and we’re not very good at taking them as we should. These articles help us investigate what part pharmaceuticals play in modern life and ask where we...
Drugs *suitable for home teaching*
Published by the Wellcome Trust, the 'Big Picture' explores issues around biology and medicine.
While providing immense benefits, drugs are not the perfect solution. They only work on a proportion of patients,...