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Behind the picture: When Mr Scott met his brain
This week Mr John Scott, a member of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936, was able to meet his grey and his white matter in models made by the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE)...
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Behind the picture: our gorgeous gut flora
Who knew we had such pretty guts? Dr Nicola Fawcett, medic and researcher at the University of Oxford, produced these images in collaboration with photographer Chris Wood to show the importance of...
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Behind the picture: a tiny cell-killing drill
This image has been created by a team at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) in collaboration with the University of Exeter and Birkbeck College and, for the first time, shows a detailed...
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To the Crick! Part four: Think long and hard
Today, Professor Tim Bliss will be awarded The Brain Prize alongside Graham Collingridge and Richard Morris. Bliss worked at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) from 1967 to 2015 and is...
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Preparing to move – how cancer can use your immune system as a highway
Dr Jacqui Shields and Dr Angela Riedel at the MRC Cancer Unit explain the science behind these brightly-coloured blobs that show us how cancer cells prepare their road ahead so they can spread around...
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Behind the picture: The sponge that turns cells into bone-fixing factories
The first UK Regenerative Medicine Conference took place in London this week. Sylvie Kruiniger spoke to Professor Fergal O’Brien, who heads the Tissue Engineering Research Group at the Royal College of...
View ArticleBehind the picture: Metaphors of the mind
Frustrated by the lack of images to illustrate the mind, Dr Rhys Bevan-Jones, Clinical Research Fellow at the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, decided to create his own. […] The...
View ArticleBehind the picture: Charles Fletcher as the first TV doctor
Nowadays few people would dispute that it’s important for people to know about medical matters, but that wasn’t always the case. While our Max Perutz Science Writing Award is open to MRC-funded […] The...
View ArticleBehind the picture: Dementia research in the UK
The MRC has joined forces with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to create this picture of the dementia research ‘landscape’ in the UK, made up of people working […] The post Behind the...
View ArticleBehind the picture: How fly eye cells get their shape
The main goal of the Pichaud lab at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London is to understand how fly eye cells get their shape. But […] The post Behind the picture:...
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