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Mouse brain capillaries, SEM

Mouse embryo

Tellima grandiflora (Pursh)Lindl. Saxifragaceae Distribution: Western North America from Alaska to California. The Native American Skagit tribe from Washington State, used it to improve appetite. The Nitinaht used it to stop having dreams of sexual intercourse with the dead (Moerman, 1998), Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Human heart (mitral valve) tissue displaying calcification

Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment

Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography

Rat neurones, SEM

Clonal tracking, mouse fibroblasts

Ambulance on route to an emergency call out, UK.

HeLa cells, immortal human epithelial cancer cell line, SEM

Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

Mouse neural stem cells growing in culture. Neural stem cells can be made to develop into cells found in the central nervous system; neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.

Kidney stone

Fargesia rufa T.P.Yi Poaceae. Farges bamboo. Distribution: China. Named, in 1985, after Paul Guillaume Farges (1844-1912), a French missionary and plant collector, who went in 1867 with the Missions Étrangères to north-east Szechuan. He botanised extensively and amassed 4,000 herbarium specimens which he sent back o France. He discovered and sent back seeds of the handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata, one of which germinated after 18 months. Eighty plants have been named after him. (Cox, 1945

Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot, Pucoon or Indian paint)

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Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

Mouse neural stem cells growing in culture. Neural stem cells can be made to develop into cells found in the central nervous system; neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.

Kidney stone

Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot, Pucoon or Indian paint)