Stories
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Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Bringing biotech to the people
Amateur scientists have inspired all kinds of frightening scenarios, from Frankenstein’s monster to ‘The Fly’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. But it can be a force for good. Today’s DIYbio enthusiasts are having fun – and even making lucrative breakthrough discoveries.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Books
Medical scientists and doctors / [Norman Wymer].
Wymer, Norman.Date: 1958- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Biographical notes [on French scientists]'
Date: c.1930s-1940sReference: WA/HMM/CO/Sai/D.5Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
French scientists
Date: 1933-1945Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Sai/DPart of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
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'Response to the scientists'
Date: 2000Reference: UGC 188/9/4/1Part of: Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
Off-prints and reprints of articles by scientists
Date: 1940-1945Reference: PP/NHE/E/2/16Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)