Former Museum of the Month, the Hunterian Museum, has a delightful new exhibition themed around microscopy. Artist Susanna Edwards found a collection of Victorian microscope slides in a charity shop. She then photographed the 19th Century preparations using microscopes both antique and modern – the …
“Do you like the bollards?” says Prof. Paul Goddard, curator of The Art of Medicine. “I made them myself.” It’s a curious admission, but then this is a curious exhibition. The British Institute of Radiology on Portland Place are holding their first-ever art installation, which …
Who would have thought that fish embryos could be so hypnotic? Under the microscope, they tumble and turn like marbles, executing the occasional piscine wriggle at camera. These dainty roe are zebrafish, whose unusual transparency is a boon for medical research. Scientists intensely breed the …
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