Stories
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The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
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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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A story of death, trauma and austerity
Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.
- Book extract
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.
Catalogue
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Model of phosphorylase kinase
Mol. Biophysics, Oxford Univ.- Archives and manuscripts
Generic Model Organism Database
Date: 2000Reference: PP/MIA/G/2/11/2Part of: Professor Michael Ashburner: archives- Books
The conqueror worm : an historical and philosophical examination of the use of the nematode c. elegans as a model organism / by Rachel Allyson Ankeny.
Ankeny, Rachel A.Date: [1997], ©1997- Digital Images
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Chlamydomonas is a type of green algae made up of unicellular flagellates. This type of algae is found in stagnant water, on damp soil, in freshwater and in seawater. It has sometimes also been found in snow. It is frenquently used as a model organism in molecular biology
Odra Noel- Archives and manuscripts
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"General model for the chromosomes of higher organisms"
Date: 1971Reference: PP/CRI/I/1/26Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives