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Printing the body

The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.

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Digitising Audrey

Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.

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Do you see what I see?

Is reality actually what you see, or just an elaborate illusion?

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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats

Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.

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  • Microvasculature of the african grey parrot.
  • 3D printed reconstruction of the arcuate fasciculus.
  • Structure of foot-and-mouth disease virus
  • Squamous carcinoma of lacrimal gland, microscopy
  • Choroidal space, human eye.
  • 3D view on vessels of a healthy minipig eye. The upper opening corresponds to the pupil as the gateway input of all light into the eye. It is interesting to see the marked abundance of vessels of the pupil which bring energy and food to the muscles to control the amount of incident light. The other large vessels are feeder vessels for the outer layers of the retina and muscles, so, that the eye quickly can perceive the environment and the creature may adapt and survive.
  • Central nervous system, Zebrafish embryo
  • Movie of a mouse head in development
  • Developing mouse head
  • 3D depth-coloured transparent mouse mammary gland
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