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  • Mouse brain capillaries, SEM
  • Mouse embryo
  • Tellima grandiflora (Pursh)Lindl. Saxifragaceae Distribution: Western North America from Alaska to California. The Native American Skagit tribe from Washington State, used it to improve appetite. The Nitinaht used it to stop having dreams of sexual intercourse with the dead (Moerman, 1998), Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Human heart (mitral valve) tissue displaying calcification
  • Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Clonal tracking, mouse fibroblasts
  • Ambulance on route to an emergency call out, UK.
  • HeLa cells, immortal human epithelial cancer cell line, SEM
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Works

  • view Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite
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    Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

    Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen
  • view Mouse neural stem cells growing in culture. Neural stem cells can be made to develop into cells found in the central nervous system; neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.
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    Mouse neural stem cells growing in culture. Neural stem cells can be made to develop into cells found in the central nervous system; neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.

    Yirui Sun
  • view Kidney stone
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    Kidney stone

    Sergio Bertazzo, Imperial College London; Dominique Bazin, UPMC; Chantal Jouanneau, INSERM.
  • view Fargesia rufa T.P.Yi Poaceae. Farges bamboo. Distribution: China. Named, in 1985, after Paul Guillaume Farges (1844-1912), a French missionary and plant collector, who went in 1867 with the Missions Étrangères to north-east Szechuan. He botanised extensively and amassed 4,000 herbarium specimens which he sent back o France. He discovered and sent back seeds of the handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata, one of which germinated after 18 months. Eighty plants have been named after him. (Cox, 1945
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    Fargesia rufa T.P.Yi Poaceae. Farges bamboo. Distribution: China. Named, in 1985, after Paul Guillaume Farges (1844-1912), a French missionary and plant collector, who went in 1867 with the Missions Étrangères to north-east Szechuan. He botanised extensively and amassed 4,000 herbarium specimens which he sent back o France. He discovered and sent back seeds of the handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata, one of which germinated after 18 months. Eighty plants have been named after him. (Cox, 1945

    Dr Henry Oakeley
  • view Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot, Pucoon or Indian paint)
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    Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot, Pucoon or Indian paint)

    Dr Henry Oakeley
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