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  • A tear divides an embracing naked couple representing a warning about safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Service d'Education pour la Santé, Papeete, Tahiti. Colour lithograph by B. Hugueville and E. Gispalou, 1990.
  • A crowd of people sitting in the sun with a tear down the middle to reveal a black triangular cavity; representing the effects of the marginalisation of people with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Enrico Delmastro, ca. 1995.
  • A young tearful woman looking up imploringly at a turbaned man who anxiously looks away. Black chalk drawing.
  • Above, the martyr Nicholas Burton is tied and suspended from a hook and tortured by men using pliers to tear flesh from his body; below, Richard Wilmot and Thomas Halifax are scourged in Drapers Hall, London. Engraving with etching.
  • An African man tearing meat from the carcass of an animal: parasitic infections in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A man is reaching out anxiously to a woman who is tearing up a newspaper. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Wet Stuff water-based lubricant : gives more comfort, gives more feeling, helps stop the condom tearing & doesn't weaken rubber like oil / Rubberstuffers, RS Health Ltd.
  • A pack of dogs attack a stag in a forest clearing by a river (?), tearing it to pieces. Etching attributed to J.E. Ridinger (?), ca. 1750 (?).
  • Two Khoikhoi people (South African tribe) tearing the intestines of an ox apart to eat; four men seated in the background, one of them eating intestines of the ox. Engraving, 1768.
  • The Duke of Wellington stands at the top of a ladder tearing down a poster while Lord Lyndhurst paints a message "bill stickers beware" with Lord Morpeth carrying a basket of bills and Lord John Russell looking on. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • Little Red Riding Hood: a man with a knife in between his teeth is tearing open the entrails of a wolf, inside which Little Red Riding Hood is reclining; a woman crying in the background. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. de Montaut, ca. 1865.
  • Separation of DNA fragments by electrophoresis through an agarose gel.
  • Focus on genetics
  • Separation of DNA fragments by electrophoresis through an agarose gel. An electric current is passed through the gel and separates the DNA fragments according to size. The mixture of fragments is applied to a well at the top of the gel before the current is started. The smaller fragments travel further and reach the bottom of the gel while the larger ones remain towards the origin.
  • Separation of DNA fragments by electrophoresis through an agarose gel. An electric current is passed through the gel and separates the DNA fragments according to size. The mixture of fragments is applied to a well at the top of the gel before the current is started. The smaller fragments travel further and reach the bottom of the gel while the larger ones remain towards the origin.
  • Separation of DNA fragments by electrophoresis through an agarose gel. An electric current is passed through the gel and separates the DNA fragments according to size. The mixture of fragments is applied to a well at the top of the gel before the current is started. The smaller fragments travel further and reach the bottom of the gel while the larger ones remain towards the origin.
  • DNA bands on a gel
  • Genetic modification
  • Focus on genetics
  • Drosophila neuron
  • Separation of DNA fragments by electrophoresis through an agarose gel.
  • Lyell Johnson & Fred Groome.
  • Lyell Johnson & Fred Groome.
  • Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Coloured lithograph.
  • Situs inversus, illustration
  • A woman with AIDS weeping representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • Misreplication of DNA in human fibroblast nucleus
  • Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.