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Wellcome Image of the Month: Celebration of the brain
Recently, the Wellcome Trust supported a play called 2401 Objects. It tells the story of Henry Molaison, who suffered from epilepsy and underwent experimental surgery in an attempt to cure his...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Super resolution microscopy
Microscopes let us view really small things at bigger scale, opening up a fascinating scientific world normally invisible to the human eye. They have completely transformed cell biology, uncovering an...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Diabetes
Cases before and after insulin treatment Today is World Diabetes Day. Led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and its member associations, it engages millions of people worldwide in diabetes...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Christmas Cells
We are ending 2011 with a Wellcome Image Award Winner. This computer simulated image of pyramidal neurons was created using software called the TREES Toolbox, which allows scientists to create...
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Wellcome Image of the Month – Wine crystal
The subject of January’s Wellcome Image of the Month might not be instantly recognisable, but I’d wager that more than a few of you came into contact with it over the festive period, most likely...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Beta Blockers
There’s a lot to get your heart racing in February: Charles Dickens Day (Feb 7), Darwin Day (Feb 12), Valentine’s Day (Feb 14), Pancake Day (Feb 21), but perhaps most importantly, and shamelessly...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: TB Warning
March 24th is World Tuberculosis Day. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced he had discovered the cause of TB by successfully isolating the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis,...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Colon cancer cells
April is National Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. Approximately 40,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year, making it the third most common cancer. 95 per cent of all diagnoses are in...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Focus on stroke
It is the third largest cause of death in the UK after heart disease and cancer, causing more than 50 000 deaths every year and leaving thousands more with long-term physical and mental disability....
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Award winner
This is an award winning image – a 2012 Wellcome Image Award winner! Judging took place way back in January, but last night we could finally reveal the sixteen victorious images, and rather...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Mr Muscle
With the Olympics just around the corner, here’s a bit of biology essential for any gold medal-chasing athlete… This image is a scanning electron micrograph showing three interstitial cells of Cajal...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Golden oldie
Team GB are flying at London 2012. So far we’ve racked up gold medals in cycling, sailing, tennis, equestrianism, canoeing, rowing, shooting and athletics. But how did we do exactly 100 years ago at...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: World Rabies Day
What deadly disease results in symptoms including fever, hydrophobia, hallucinations and paralysis? Rabies, of course. A viral infection targeting the brain and nervous system, rabies affects over...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Osteoporosis
The 20th of October 2012 marked World Osteoporosis Day, which highlighted an often overlooked public health epidemic. Osteoporosis or ‘porous bones’ is a chronic condition affecting at least 1 in 3...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Men’s Health
Abnormal human sperm To coincide with ‘Movember’, this month’s focus is on men’s health. Behind the month-long moustache growing event is an important message: to raise awareness of men’s health...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Lung Tonic
It is that time of year again when coughs and colds are rife and almost everyone seems to be harbouring a sniffle of some sort. Part of Wellcome Library’s Ephemera Collection, this showcard advertised...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Busting Bugs
The 31st of January is the first of three National Bug Busting Days this year, followed by 15 June and 31 October. Bug Busting days aim to increase awareness, detection and treatment of head lice and...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Microneedles
On 23 February 1954, a group of children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were the first to receive Jonas Salk’s injected polio vaccine. Almost 59 years later, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Dandelion
For many, March represents the end of winter and the start of spring, though some controversy still exists over the exact date when the seasons change. In meteorology, spring begins on 1 March, whilst...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Malaria
World Malaria Day recognises global efforts being made in the fight against malaria. First established in 2007 by the World Health Assembly, it falls on 25 April every year. Malaria is an infectious...
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