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  • Raw potato
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Adipose Tissue
  • Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry. Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan Culpeper: In his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ...are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tapeworm cyst in a sheep brain
  • Calcium oxalate crystals in urinary sediment
  • Bovine kidneys
  • Cell walls in a Quercus (oak) stem, LM
  • Charcot Leyden crystals from an endobronchial lesion
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Hair brain sculptures
  • Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina)
  • Visualising the human breath ("Breathe"), Artwork
  • Chocolate wafer snack
  • Leishmania mexicana parasites in the amastigote stage, SEM
  • Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
  • Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
  • Alzheimer's disease, artwork
  • Sclera (white part) of the human eye
  • Liver of a DEN (Diethylnitrosamine)-treated rat. DEN is a toxic chemical which quickly induces liver cirrhosis followed by HCC (Hepatocellular carcinoma, a primary liver cancer). Cirrhosis is an end result of fibrosis, the scarring of liver tissue. Fibrosis is caused by the overproduction of collagen, a component of the connective tissue forming the liver. To grade the amount of cirrhosis present in a liver sample, collagen is made visible using the dye sirius red. Under polarized light, collagen is observed as the golden to red color as shown in this image.
  • Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
  • Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
  • Mite infested chicken legs
  • Ultrastructure inside a macrophage cell, TEM
  • Spirochete presentation in inguinal lymph node section
  • Human brain cancer stem cells treated with graphene, SEM
  • Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
  • Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
  • Cow foregut showing multiple warty growths (papillomas). These have grown from the gut lining, which is formed of squamous epithelium (consisting of flat, thin cells). These benign (non-cancerous) tumours can be caused by papillomavirus infection.
  • Male jumping spider (possibly Platycryptus undatus)