Medicine
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In her own Words: Photographer Eleanor Farmer on Blood, A Circulation of Curiosities
As she opens a show at Guy's Hospital in London, the photographer explains how her pictures of blood represent life and death, with the capacity to fascinate and repel.
Five-year, £1.4 million project to reveal "unsung heroes" of biomedicine
In the largest research project of its kind ever carried out in the UK, the University of London and the Wellcome Trust will spend five years collecting the stories of the people behind the medical breakthroughs of the 21st century, ranging from nurses to journalists.
Brilliant biologist D'Arcy Thompson inspires new art collection at University of Dundee
The late 19th and early 18th century polymath, best known for book On Growth and Form and decades of academic leadership, will be the subject of a £100,000 art collection.
Oxford experts' brain research on Rembrandts suggests public prefer the genuine article
Art historians and scientists have used brain scanners, 14 human guinea pigs and a set of fake and genuine Rembrandt works to prove that the way we view art is "not rational".
Activist and artist Ju Gosling works Towards a Scientific Model of Disability at the Hunterian
Under her Ju90 alter-ego, artist Juliet Gosling aims to challenge the way society perceives the disabled. Her show at the Hunterian Museum in London continues her crusade.
British Dental Association's Museum buys "too good to miss" John Lavery painting for £60,000
A painting by the Glasgow Boy and war artist which provides a revealing glimpse inside early 20th century dental surgeries will become a focal work at the BDA Museum
Hijacking Natural Systems and Touch and Trace duet at Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Two innovative and original exhibitions in Derby, courtesy of science art on the cells which cause hunger by Jo Berry and works fusing digital and traditional art from Kate Smith.
The Culture24/7: Science and Nature Picks for September 2011
Lunar rainbows, signed biscuits from the South Pole, pop-up 1980s hospitals and Dorset beaches transported to the heart of London in our round-up for September.
Wellcome Trust to cure Glastonbury revellers in Decontamination Units at Shangri-La site
Guerilla Scientists will give microbiological and psychiatric tests at Glastonbury before cleansing dirty bodies and minds.
Leading UK scientist Sir Martin Evans captured in David Cobley National Portrait Gallery piece
A new NPG arrival captures the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who was the first scientist to discover embryonic stem cells.
St David's Hall installation accompanies Dame Gwyneth Jones Science of Singing in Cardiff
An installation and workshop on the Science of Singing celebrates the Wellcome Trust's 75th birthday in Cardiff.
Organ recipients invited to tell their stories in transplant exhibition at University of London
A project exploring the lasting links between donors and their organs is seeking transplant patients for an exhibition.
Wellcome Collection gets snapshot of fearless French surgeon Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes
The Wellcome welcomes a pioneering surgeon pictured with a 28-pound tumour cut from the testicle of a Foreign Minister.
Royal Society and V&A tell us what happens to your brain when you enter a museum?
What happens to your brain when you enter a museum? This Royal Society film explores the answers on a visit to the V&A.
Curator Kate Forde reveals the Filthy Reality of Everyday Life at London's Wellcome Collection
Kate Forde on the dust, cholera, landfills, bricks and human faeces filling the Wellcome Collection's exhibition about Dirt.
