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  • A tree showing the evolution of health care in the twentieth century. Colour print by J. Galloway and R. Richards, 2011.
  • Polarisation of embryonic cell membranes
  • A machine for filling bottles or tubes with pills, tablets etc.; advertising Richard Brandt's "Hygienic" machine. Process print after Leonhard Fries.
  • A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • I wonder what next they will do : the great topical song / written by Charles Merion ; composed by Vincent Davies ; sung by Herbert Campbell in the successful pantomime, The Grim Goblin, at the Grecian Theatre.
  • Derivation of embryonic stem cells
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Derivation of embryonic stem cells
  • Scheme for in vitro fertilisation
  • Human blastocyst within the zona pellucida
  • TEM of mouse blastocyst
  • 2 mouse blastocysts showing inner cell mass
  • Human blastocyst within the zona pellucida
  • A doctor on the telephone (which is linked up to a television screen) to a patient whom he can both observe and talk to from a distance; representing possible technical innovations. Line block after D.L. Ghilchip, 1932.
  • Mouse Blastocyst showing inner cell mass
  • Newly fertilised human egg
  • Embryo showing polarisation of membranes
  • Science: a parody frontispiece to the Penny Magazine, with humorous representations of the "March of intellect" movement. Lithograph by G. Davies, 1832, after C.J. Grant.
  • PCR analysis to sex embryos
  • A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
  • Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.
  • Mouse Blastocyst showing inner cell mass
  • Diagram of blastocyst
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing a variety of subjects studied there. Line engraving by G. Herth after G. Stein.
  • Embryo manipulation equipment
  • Embryo manipulation equipment
  • Embryo biopsy lab
  • Embryo biopsy lab
  • Embryo biopsy lab