Stories
- Article
Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
- Article
The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming
Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.
- Article
Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Stem Cells
Date: 2001Reference: JDW/2/4/2/68Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"Fibrocytes Mesenchymal Stem Cells"
Date: 1996-1998Reference: SA/KET/C/1/8/4Part of: The Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Tetrocarinorha Stem Cells Meeting
Date: 1982Reference: JDW/1/10/8Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
081309/Z/06/Z: Human Embryos, Human Stem Cells
Dr C Clare BlackburnDate: 2011Reference: WT/C/6/2/12Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
083079/Z/07/Z: Let's Talk - Stem Cells, Biobanking, Sustainability
Date: 2006-2007Reference: WT/C/6/1/105Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive