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The quest to breed gifted children

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

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The tale of the toxic kidneys

In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.

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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms

Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?

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Can our sexual desires be transformed?

In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.

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  • King of Sweden presents Nobel prizes in Stockholm.
  • Paul Ehrlich's Nobel Prize Diploma
  • Henry Dale: Nobel prize awarded in 1936
  • Nobel prize awarded to Henry Dale in 1936
  • Paul Ehrlich: his Nobel Prize citation, 29 October 1908. Colour photograph.
  • Front cover of Wellcome News, Special Nobel Prize Issue, 1988, showing Hitchings and Elion.
  • Sir Henry Dale and Professor Otto Loewi outside the Grand Hotel, Stockholm at the time of the presentation to them of the Nobel Prize for the Physiology and Medicine, 1936.
  • Les Prix Nobel.
  • Portrait of Otto Loewi in Boston, 1929
  • Pencil sketch of the DNA double helix by Francis Crick. It shows a right-handed helix and the nucleotides of the two anti-parallel strands.
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