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  • Translocation shown using centromere probes
  • Translocation - use of cosmid probe
  • Two withered wretches trying to hold up a slab of stone. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Forceps used for the trichiasis or inversion of the eyelids.
  • Alphonse de Palacios, who suffered so severely from an infection of the retina that he was unable to look at any light. Engraving.
  • Ceylon, India: a shaman holding a large bow for a divination ritual. Process print, 1910/1930.
  • Machinery used in the comparative testing of gold. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • DNA sequencing autoradiograph - coloured
  • Fairy fly (Himopolynema), parasitoid wasp
  • Human osteosarcoma cells
  • Pulse chart: Locations for palpating taixi & chongyang pulse
  • Queen Gunhilda, consort of King Henry III of Germany, receives from her page the severed head of the man who had accused her of adultery, after he had been defeated by the page in combat, but Gunhilda renounces her victory. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet after A. Casali.
  • Mr. Lambkin drunk on champagne sitting in a carriage at Epsom with lots of other drunken bachelors. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A palm tree (Iriartella setigera (Mart.) H. Wendl.) in fruit in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
  • Graphical visualisation of tweets containing #breastcancer.
  • A line of people shaking hands with a mother, father and their child representing a warning by the World Health Organization about who is at risk from AIDS . Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Crystals of a DNA repair protein
  • Human osteosarcoma cells
  • Human osteosarcoma cells
  • Introduced by the Duke of Wellington, John Bull and Sir Robert Peel interrupt a dinner table occupied by government ministers and Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • Mouse neuromuscular junctions
  • Candidates fit for military service awaiting a medical assessment, 1897. Process print after Jos. Straka, 1904.
  • Candidates fit for military service awaiting a medical assessment, 1897. Process print after Jos. Straka, 1904.
  • The Eight Techniques of the Spirit Tortoise, woodcut
  • Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt. Line engraving.
  • Genetic control of polarity in Drosophila oocyte
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • A cross-dressing man in a top hat; representing effeminate fashions for men. Colour process print, ca. 1910.
  • A cross-dressing man in a top hat; representing effeminate fashions for men. Colour process print, ca. 1910.