Plants of plant, cultivated sweet oranges

concept

Mouse brain capillaries, SEM

Geum rivale 'Leonard's Variety'

Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment

NK T-cell lymphoma is a highly aggressive cancer of a specific type of immune cell called lymphoid cells, and is associated with the Epstein Barr virus (glandular fever). In later stages of the disease, the lymphoma can spread to the lymph nodes, as in this case. 

Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC

Rabbit cerebellum

Early mouse embryo preimplantation, LM

Cardiac Muscle

Drupaceous fruit from Cotinus coggygria (smoke bush), SEM

Neurons or nerve cells are the core components of the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS), and of the ganglia of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) controlling many motor and sensory functions of the body.

Raynaud's Phenomenon

Black bee (unknown species)

Watsonia pillansii L.Bolus Iridaceae Bugle lily, Distribution: South Africa. Named for Sir William Watson (1715-1787), British botanist and physician, sometime censor at the Royal College of Physicians, London. No medicinal uses. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Trichuris muris is a parasitic nematode affecting mice. Following ingestion, T. muris eggs hatch in the large intestine where they develop into adults. The anterior end of the worm burrows into the lining of the gut, leaving the posterior end protruding into the lumen of the gut. The worms mate in this orientation, and the resulting eggs are released in to the gut lumen and shed faecally. 

Kidney stone

DNA sequence of CCR5 Delta 32 gene mutation

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Citrus sinensis

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Images referencing Citrus sinensis

Works from the collections

Black bee (unknown species)

Kidney stone

DNA sequence of CCR5 Delta 32 gene mutation

Citrus sinensis

Images from the collections

Images referencing Citrus sinensis

Works from the collections

Black bee (unknown species)

Kidney stone

DNA sequence of CCR5 Delta 32 gene mutation

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