Stories
- Article
Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
- Article
How your hairdresser could save your life
Barbers and hairdressers have a unique view of us – one that means they can spot potentially dangerous health problems. Find out how buzzcuts can lead to blood-pressure checks, and dip-dyes show the way to the dermatologist.
- Book extract
The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
- Article
The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming
Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Cancer Cells Meeting
Date: 1984Reference: JDW/1/10/10Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Books
Cancer cells / E.V. Cowdry.
Cowdry, E. V. (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975.Date: 1955
- Pictures
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Cancer cells and instruments for treating cancer; advertising a cancer congress in East Germany. Colour lithograph by H. Israel for the Gesellschaft für Geschwulstbekämpfung der DDR, 1985.
Israel, Heinz (Artist)Date: [1985]Reference: 2005337i- Film
Interference microscopy of normal and cancer cells in tissue culture.
Date: 1958
- Pictures
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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.
Date: 1991Reference: 667046i
