Stories
- Article
It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
- 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.
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We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Mice records
Date: 1968-1969Reference: WTI/RFS/C/8Part of: Sturrock, Robert F (b.1937)- Archives and manuscripts
Mice Activity
Vane, Sir John, FRS (1927-2004), PharmacologistDate: 1959Reference: PP/JRV/B/3/8Part of: Vane, Sir John Robert (1927-2004)- Videos
Mice against leprosy.
Date: 1989- Digital Images
- Online
Mice used in leprosy research
- Books
Mice and Medicine : animal experiments, medical advances and the MRC / Medical Research Council.
Medical Research Council (Great Britain)Date: 2001