Appliance of science: Cells and the city
Daksha's work will be shown at Manchester Piccadilly’s Metrolink platform until the end of December. Credit: Joel Fildes Artist and PhD researcher Daksha Patel has used Wellcome Images to create a...
View ArticleThe Portrait of a Fly (part 1): Come fly with me
For more than a hundred years, scientists have used the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) to study the fundamentals of developmental biology and genetics. But as biological understanding and...
View ArticleThe Portrait of a Fly (part 2): Fly on the wall
Drosophila: the model model organism; the humble fruit fly with a noble (not to mention Nobel) place in the history of science. Having learned about its importance in genetics and developmental...
View ArticleOf English bloodhounds and indigenous medicine
Delegates at iCHSTM 2013 Along with the sunshine, July brought another extraordinary event to the city of Manchester – the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology & Medicine...
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