Stories
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
- Article
We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies
Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Workshop - Cell Hybridization
Date: 1973Reference: SB/1/2/285Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Books
Studies on the Anopheles punctulatus complex. II, Hybridization of the member species / Joan H. Bryan.
Bryan, Joan H.Date: 1973- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Mapping Muscle Protein Genes by in Situ Hybridization using Biotin Labeled Probes - Albertson, Donna G.
Date: 1985Reference: SB/2/3/9Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Comparative mapping of mouse and rat chromosomes' by Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization,with Frank Grutzner et al.
Date: c.1998Reference: UGC 188/4/1/21/1Part of: Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
'Induced chromosome elimination in hybrid cells,' by Guido Pontecorvo in Somatic Cell Hybridizationedited by Richard L Davidson and Felix de la Cruz (Raven Press, New York)
Date: 1974Reference: UGC 198/7/2/93Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland