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  • Mouse kidney
  • Kidney stone
  • Woodlouse, SEM
  • Chloroplast in a bean leaf, TEM
  • Toxic Tau
  • Cabbage, sagittal view, MRI
  • Dorsal root ganglion neurone from a mouse, LM
  • Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment
  • Human heart (aortic valve) tissue displaying calcification
  • Head louse, SEM
  • Green lichen
  • Nigella sativa L. Ranunculaceae Love-in-the-mist, Black Cumin, Nutmeg flower, Roman Coriander. Distribution: SW Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Nigella seeds, boyled in oil, and the forehead anointed with it, ease pains in the head, take away leprosie, itch, scurf, and helps scald-heads, inwardly taken they expel worms, they provoke urine and the terms, help difficulty of breathing: the smoke of them (being burned) drives away serpents and venomous beasts.’ The seeds are used as a spice, but as might be expected as a member of the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercups, the plant contains a highly poisonous glycoside, in this case called melanthin. The amount of toxicity present in spices is clearly insufficient to cause problems when used as such. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Bacterial microbiome mapping, bioartistic experiment
  • Mouse neuromuscular junctions
  • Chaperone protein
  • Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
  • Imaginary Herbaria of Dr James Miranda Barry
  • Neuromuscular junctions and blood vessels
  • Rohdea japonica Roth Convallariaceae Distribution: Japan. It is a monotypic genus known as omoto in Japan, meaning ‘evergreen’. It is regarded as a symbol of long life and good fortune
  • Lung cancer cells grown in culture, SEM
  • Macrophages infected with candida yeast, LM
  • HeLa cells expressing the protein survivin
  • Raynaud's Phenomenon
  • Zebrafish sensory neuromasts
  • Kidney stone
  • Imaginary Herbaria of Dr James Miranda Barry
  • Wild-type Muscle Sarcomere, Drosophila larva
  • Coccolithophore
  • Diatom frustule, SEM
  • Smilacina racemosa Desf. syn. Maianthemum racemosum (L.)Link Convallariaceae. False Spikenard, False Solomon's Seal, Scurvy berries, Treacle berries. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. Probably introduced to England by John Tradescant the Younger in 1656 as it appears in his garden plant catalogue in Musaeum Tradescantianum in 1656. Austin (2004) reports on Native American traditional usage: a cold infusion of the roots was used for sore eyes (Cherokee)