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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.

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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.

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  • Mengo medical mission, Uganda: (left) two African scientists working in a laboratory; (right) a Ugandan medicine man and an African man pouring out medicine. Gouache painting, 1927.
  • Dictionaire des sciences médicales. Biographie médicale ... / [Edited by A.J.L. Jourdan].
  • William Chamberlayne. Line engraving by A. Hertocks, 1659.
  • Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1701.
  • Reinier de Graaf. Line engraving, 1668.
  • Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1701.
  • Thomas Linacre. Stipple engraving by H. Cook after W. Miller, 1810.
  • John Brown [Bruno]. Line engraving by J. Caldwall after J. Donaldson.
  • W. C. Roentgen, professor of physics at Giessen, Wuerzburg and Munich, discoverer of X-rays. Reproduction of etching by J. Lindner-Mohn, 1900.
  • W. C. Roentgen, professor of physics at Giessen, Wuerzburg and Munich, discoverer of X-rays. Reproduction of etching by J. Lindner-Mohn, 1900.
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