Stories
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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Drops of water
In the compulsory isolation of lockdown, Daisy Lafarge’s repeated visits – via a new microscope – to the miniature worlds contained by drops of pond water provided her with the company and escapism she craved.
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Manipulating the evidence with deepfake technology
How can you be sure that the person speaking on the screen is genuine? Find out how sophisticated digital manipulation is blurring the boundaries between real and ‘deepfake’.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Research grants
Date: 1961-1998Reference: UGC 188/2/1/1Part of: Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Books
Research grants management and funding : symposium proceedings / edited by Fiona Q. Wood and V. Lynn Meek.
Date: 1993- Archives and manuscripts
Details of grants awarded to Genome Research Limited
Date: May 1995-November 2000Reference: WT/C/2/3/38Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Reports on grants given for Medical Research
Date: February 1976-March 1980Reference: WTI/LEP/D/1/9Part of: LEPRA (formerly The British Leprosy Relief Association, now LEPRA Health in Action)- Archives and manuscripts
Research Grants
Date: 2004-2009Reference: SA/KET/B/17Part of: The Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research