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Archives and Manuscripts cataloguing – July 2010
Our archive cataloguing during July was chiefly dominated by on-going projects rather than the release of new records to the database: although several of those projects will appear very shortly, some as early as August’s round-up. One very small collection… Continue reading
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‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’
We recently wrote on this blog on the life – and afterlife – of Henrietta Lacks, illustrating our post with one of the images of HeLa cells to be found on Wellcome Images. Those intrigued by the post, may be… Continue reading
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Proteins and Prizes
Wellcome Image Award winner and current Wellcome Trust grant holder, Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan, has been named as one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. Venki’s computer-generated molecular model of a ribosome, showing its 3D structure in… Continue reading
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Item of the month – July 2009
Suffused with an ethereal phosphorescent glow, artist Anne Brodie’s ghostly images cast new light on the human body’s inextricable relationship with unseen forces of nature. In ‘Exploring the Invisible‘, a Wellcome Trust funded collaboration with microbiologist Dr Simon Park and… Continue reading
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“Nature’s art forms”
The Wellcome Library has acquired a set of Kunstformen der Natur (“Nature’s art forms”) by the German evolutionary biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). Kunstformen der Natur is described by Breidbach as the last and most ambitious of Haeckel’s major graphic works… Continue reading