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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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The secrets your teeth hold

Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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  • Neuromuscular junction showing the association of the nerves and the muscle fibres. This image is taken from a Drosophila larva and shows the neuromuscular junctions stained with green fluorescence protein (GFP) in association with the muscle fibres in red. The muscle is stained with an antibody which provides the red colour and also shows the striated pattern of the contractile filaments (sarcomers) of the muscle.
  • Muscle Innervation
  • Zebrafish embryos with green fluorescent myotomes
  • Fast and slow muscle fibres in zebrafish myotomes
  • Sarcomeres in myofibrils of relaxed skeletal muscle
  • Developing muscles and their innervation during metamorphosis
  • Zebrafish embryos with green fluorescent myotomes
  • Neuromuscular junction in fast-twitch muscle
  • Neuromuscular junctions in fast-twitch muscle fibres
  • Neuromuscular junction in fast-twitch muscle
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