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Chemical highs and psychedelic research

Could recreational drugs make you happy? Kate Wilkinson explores why keen clubber Simon believes taking psychedelics has helped him develop as a person.

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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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Chillies and the trouble with Scoville

Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.

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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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  • Contraceptive methods and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / World Health Organization Special Programme on AIDS and Special Programme of Research, Development, and Research Training in Human Reproduction.
  • Two enlarged images of T-cells one infected with HIV by the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center. Colour lithograph by Nancy Burson and Kunio Nagashima, 1991.
  • Handbook of the sphygmograph : being a guide to its use in clinical research : to which is appended a lecture delivered at the Royal College of Physicians on the 29th of March 1867 on the mode and duration of the contraction of the heart in health and disease / By J. Burdon Sanderson.
  • Handbook of the sphygmograph : being a guide to its use in clinical research : to which is appended a lecture delivered at the Royal College of Physicians on the 29th of March 1867 on the mode and duration of the contraction of the heart in health and disease / By J. Burdon Sanderson.
  • The European Union against HIV/AIDS : leaflet / European Commission Community Research.
  • The European Union against HIV/AIDS : leaflet / European Commission Community Research.
  • The European Union against HIV/AIDS : leaflet / European Commission Community Research.
  • The European Union against HIV/AIDS : leaflet / European Commission Community Research.
  • The European Union against HIV/AIDS : leaflet / European Commission Community Research.
  • The European Union against HIV/AIDS : leaflet / European Commission Community Research.
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