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  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • Services provided by AIDS-Hilfe Frankfurt. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • A young couple embrace and their companions weep and look hopeful. Aquatint by C. Hunt, 1853, after T. Onwhyn.
  • A doctor's instruments, a chest x-ray, and taking blood samples: choosing treatment for tuberculosis in Kenya. Colour lithograph by KAPTLD, 2009.
  • The beheading of Charles I outside the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall in 1649. Engraving with etching.
  • Bangladeshi refugee camp
  • Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • Inhibition of CDK2 by staurosporine, model
  • Selling insecticide treated nets
  • The Eagle simulator for training anaesthesia students at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. Etching with lithograph by Virgina Powell, 2000.
  • The Eagle simulator for training anaesthesia students at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. Etching with lithograph by Virgina Powell, 2000.
  • Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013
  • Two devils in a laboratory produce statutes with the help of a genie; showing the repressive nature of the government of France under Louis-Philippe, especially concerning the freedom of the press. Lithograph by E. Le Poittevin, 1831.