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A

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- AIDS
Addiction
- Drugs and addiction, ecstasy and cannabis
Adenosine triphosphate, physiology
- Sport, movement and molecules
Africa
- Health in Africa
Aging
- Ageing: why, how and what happens next
- Why do we need 'programmed cell death' (apoptosis)?
Aging, genetics
- The genes that control ageing
AIDS
- AIDS
Allergy
- The immune system in health and disease
- Understanding the allergy and asthma epidemic
Alzheimer disease
- Alzheimer's disease and the hope of a therapy
- Is immunotherapy the ultimate solution for Alzheimer's disease?
Animals
- Cloning
Animals, transgenic
- Don't shoot the scientist!
Anopheles gambiae
- The malaria revolution: from mosquitoes to molecules
Anorexia nervosa
- The obesity epidemic; fat, fact and fiction!
Antibiotics
- From microbes to cancer
- Superbugs - the problem of antimicrobial resistance
- The social life of disease-causing bacteria
Antibodies
- The immune system in health and disease
- Is immunotherapy the ultimate solution for Alzheimer's disease?
Apoptosis
- The genes that control ageing
- Why do we need 'programmed cell death' (apoptosis)?
Asthma
- The immune system in health and disease
- Understanding the allergy and asthma epidemic
Asymmetry
- How and why our right and left sides differ
Autism
- MMR vaccination and suggested links with Crohn's disease
Autoimmune diseases
- M S
- The immune system in health and disease

B

Bacteria
- Superbugs - the problem of antimicrobial resistance
Bacterial infections
- The social life of disease-causing bacteria
Bacterial meningitis
- Meningitis: fresh hopes for its eradication
Badgers
- Tuberculosis in man, cattle and badgers
Biochemistry - history
- How I became a physical biochemist - a Jack of all trades and master of none
Biofilms
- The social life of disease-causing bacteria
Biomedical research - history
Biotechnology
- The recent excitement over genetically modified foods
Bipolar disorder
- Lithium, manic depression and beyond
Blood disorders
- What makes bone marrow such a versitile resource for curing human diseases?
Bone marrow transplants
- Stem cells: sorting out the hope from the hype
- What makes bone marrow such a versitile resource for curing human diseases?
Book review
Brain
BSE
- Risk
Bulgakov, Mikhail - author
- Heart of a Dog

C

Cancer
- Warts and all
- From microbes to cancer
- Glivec, CML, Abl and targeted molecular therapy for cancer
- "A lottery ticket and a packet of cigarettes, please."
- L. A. Story
- Something in the air or a simple twist of fate?
- Why do we need 'programmed cell death' (apoptosis)?
Cannabis
- Drugs and addiction, ecstasy and cannabis
Carcinogens
- "A lottery ticket and a packet of cigarettes, please."
Cattle
- Tuberculosis in man, cattle and badgers
CD4-positive T-lymphocytes
- AIDS
Cell death
- Why do we need 'programmed cell death' (apoptosis)?
Cell differentiation
- Morphogens: molecules that tell cells in the embryo where they are
Cell division
- From microbes to cancer
- "A lottery ticket and a packet of cigarettes, please."
Cell lines
- Immortality and obscurity
Cerebrovascular disorders
- Stroke and spinal injury
Cervical cancer
- Warts and all
Chemistry
- Past and present interplay of chemistry and biology at NIMR
Chloroplasts
- Where do genes come from? The case of the "green" parasites
Chromatography
- Past and present interplay of chemistry and biology at NIMR
Chromosome aberrations
- Glivec, CML, Abl and targeted molecular therapy for cancer
Clinical trials
- Descending the Magic Mountain; how early clinical trials transformed the treatment of tuberculosis
Cloning, molecular
- Cloning
Cloning, Organism
- Cloning
Cognition
- Nootropia: A smart new world?
Computational biology
- Systems biology
Consciousness
- The ghost in the machine
Crohn disease
- MMR vaccination and suggested links with Crohn's disease
Cryomicroscopy
- Nanographia
Crystallography, X-ray
- Rosalind Franklin - The dark lady of DNA
- Nanographia
Cyclopamine
- L. A. Story
Cyclopia
- L. A. Story

D

Dementia
- Alzheimer's disease and the hope of a therapy
- Is immunotherapy the ultimate solution for Alzheimer's disease?
Demyelinating diseases
- M S
Developing world
- Sharing the benefits of biomedical science
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
Developmental biology
- How and why our right and left sides differ
- Of frogs and men
- Out on a Limb
- L. A. Story
Diabetes mellitus
- Insulin and diabetes
Diet
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
Diptera
- Why flies are relevant to medical research
Disease clusters
- Something in the air or a simple twist of fate?
Disease - diagnosis
- Am I normal, Doctor? The boundaries of disease and wellness
Disease eradication
- Can the biomedical community eradicate a disease like measles?
Disease transmission
- Tuberculosis in man, cattle and badgers
Distemper
- Distemper and influenza at Mill Hill
DNA
- Hitch-hiking DNA - a guide
- Rosalind Franklin - The dark lady of DNA
DNA, mitochondrial
- Where do genes come from? The case of the "green" parasites
DNA, recombinant
- Don't shoot the scientist!
DNA repair
- "A lottery ticket and a packet of cigarettes, please."
Drosophila melanogaster
- Why flies are relevant to medical research
Drug addiction
- Drugs and addiction, ecstasy and cannabis
Drug resistance, microbial
- From microbes to cancer
- Superbugs - the problem of antimicrobial resistance
Drugs
- Nootropia: A smart new world?
Drugs - discovery & development
- Past and present interplay of chemistry and biology at NIMR
- Sharing the benefits of biomedical science
- The Billion Dollar Molecule

E

Eccleston, John - autobiography
- How I became a physical biochemist - a Jack of all trades and master of none
Ecstasy
- Drugs and addiction, ecstasy and cannabis
Eczema
- Understanding the allergy and asthma epidemic
Education
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
Electron microscopy
- Nanographia
Embryo screening
- Are "saviour siblings" a humane and proper use of reproductive technology?
Embryogenesis
- Why do we need 'programmed cell death' (apoptosis)?
Embryology
- Of frogs and men
- Out on a Limb
Embryonic stem cells
- Stem cells: sorting out the hope from the hype
Endocrinology
- Of frogs and men
Endosymbionts
- Where do genes come from? The case of the "green" parasites
Epidemiology
- Something in the air or a simple twist of fate?
Epigenetics
- There's more to heredity than genes
- Am I normal, Doctor? The boundaries of disease and wellness
Ethics
- The ethical conduct of scientific research
- Are "saviour siblings" a humane and proper use of reproductive technology?
- Immortality and obscurity
Ethiopia
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
Ethology
- Genes, learning, behaviour and the outside world
Evolution
- Life Ascending
Evolution, molecular
- Hitch-hiking DNA - a guide
- Where do genes come from? The case of the "green" parasites
Exercise, physiology
- Sport, movement and molecules
Exertion
- Sport, movement and molecules
Extremities
- Out on a Limb

F

Face - development
- L. A. Story
Fetal development
- Morphogens: molecules that tell cells in the embryo where they are
- Of frogs and men
Fish diseases
- Infectious Salmon Anaemia
Flies
- Why flies are relevant to medical research
Fluorescence
- Past and present interplay of chemistry and biology at NIMR
Food
- The recent excitement over genetically modified foods
Foundations
- Sharing the benefits of biomedical science
Franklin, Rosalind - biography
- Rosalind Franklin - The dark lady of DNA
Frogs
- Of frogs and men

G

Gene expression - environmental influences
- There's more to heredity than genes
Gene expression regulation, developmental
- Of frogs and men
Gene homologues
- Why flies are relevant to medical research
Gene therapy
- Gene therapy: simple in theory but difficult in practice
Genes
- Patenting human genes
- The genes that control ageing
- Where do genes come from? The case of the "green" parasites
- The rise in human infertility - tragedy or godsend
- The malaria revolution: from mosquitoes to molecules
- The obesity epidemic; fat, fact and fiction!
- Genes, learning, behaviour and the outside world
- Glivec, CML, Abl and targeted molecular therapy for cancer
- RNAi: the gentle art of shredding genes
- There's more to heredity than genes
- Why flies are relevant to medical research
Genes, cdc
- From microbes to cancer
Genes, Shh
- L. A. Story
Genetic engineering
- The recent excitement over genetically modified foods
- Don't shoot the scientist!
Genetic screening, embryos
- Are "saviour siblings" a humane and proper use of reproductive technology?
Genetics
- 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know
Genetics, behavioral
- Genes, learning, behaviour and the outside world
Genetics, medical
- Gene therapy: simple in theory but difficult in practice
- Heart disease genetics
- Bringing it all back home: next-generation sequenncing technology and you
Genome sequencing
- Bringing it all back home: next-generation sequenncing technology and you
Genomes, manipulation
- Don't shoot the scientist!
Genomic imprinting
- There's more to heredity than genes
Glial cells
- Unravelling the workings of the brain
Glivec
- Glivec, CML, Abl and targeted molecular therapy for cancer
Gluckman, Peter - author
- Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies
Growth
- So you want to be normal
Growth disorders
- So you want to be normal

H

Hall, Stephen S - author
- Invisible Frontiers
Handedness
- How and why our right and left sides differ
Hannam, James - author
- God's Philosophers
Hanson, Mark - author
- Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies
Hay fever
- Understanding the allergy and asthma epidemic
Health
- Health in Africa
Health economics
- Health in Africa
- Sharing the benefits of biomedical science
Health promotion
- Health-care and the advent of the Information Society
Health services
- Health in Africa
Heart
- Heart disease genetics
Heart diseases
- Am I normal, Doctor? The boundaries of disease and wellness
Henderson, Mark - author
- 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know
Herd immunity
- Can the biomedical community eradicate a disease like measles?
Hereditary diseases
- Gene therapy: simple in theory but difficult in practice
Histones
- There's more to heredity than genes
History of medicine
- In search of an enigma: the "Spanish Lady"
- Insulin and diabetes
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging - a window into the human body
- Citizenship and the medical sciences
- Past and present interplay of chemistry and biology at NIMR
HIV
- AIDS
- Health in Africa
Holmes, Richard - author
- The Age of Wonder
Homeostasis
- Why do we need 'programmed cell death' (apoptosis)?
Honigsbaum, Mark - author
- Living with Enza
Human behaviour
- Risk
- Genes, learning, behaviour and the outside world
Human biology
- Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies
Human Biology Essay Competition
- Why do we need 'programmed cell death' (apoptosis)?
- Can the biomedical community eradicate a disease like measles?
- What makes bone marrow such a versitile resource for curing human diseases?
Human genes
- Patenting human genes
- Bringing it all back home: next-generation sequenncing technology and you
Hygiene
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
Hypersensitivity
- Understanding the allergy and asthma epidemic
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Heart disease genetics

I

Imaging
- Nanographia
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks - book review
- Immortality and obscurity
Immune system
- The immune system in health and disease
- Understanding the allergy and asthma epidemic
Immune system diseases
- AIDS
Immunization, in infancy & childhood
- MMR vaccination and suggested links with Crohn's disease
- Citizenship and the medical sciences
Immunology - history
- Sir Peter Medawar's years as director of NIMR: a vignette
Immunotherapy
- Is immunotherapy the ultimate solution for Alzheimer's disease?
India
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
Induced pluripotent stem cells
- Stem cells: sorting out the hope from the hype
Infant mortality
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
- Conquistadores and cot death
Infertility, male
- The rise in human infertility - tragedy or godsend
Influenza
Insulin
- Insulin and diabetes
Internet
- Health-care and the advent of the Information Society

K

Knock-out genetics
- Why flies are relevant to medical research

L

Laboratory automation
- Laboratory robotics and high-throughput research
Lacks, Henrietta - biography
- Immortality and obscurity
- The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Lane, Nick - author
- Life Ascending
Learning
- Some things you wanted to know about memory but forgot to ask
- Nootropia: A smart new world?
Leptin
- The fat of the land
- The obesity epidemic; fat, fact and fiction!
Leukemia
- Glivec, CML, Abl and targeted molecular therapy for cancer
Light
- Seasonal depression and light therapy
Limbs
- Out on a Limb
Lithium
- Lithium, manic depression and beyond
Longevity
- The genes that control ageing
- Ageing: why, how and what happens next
Lymphocytes
- AIDS
- The immune system in health and disease
Lysenko Report 1948
- A dangerous occupation
Lysenko, Trofim
- A dangerous occupation

M

Magnetic resonance imaging
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging - a window into the human body
Malaria
- The red road
- Where do genes come from? The case of the "green" parasites
- The malaria revolution: from mosquitoes to molecules
- Health in Africa
- Translation: beating scientific swords into medical ploughshares
Malaria, prevention & control
- Malaria vaccines
- The red road
- The malaria revolution: from mosquitoes to molecules
Maternal health
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
Measles
- Can the biomedical community eradicate a disease like measles?
Measles, prevention & control
- MMR vaccination and suggested links with Crohn's disease
Medawar, Peter (Sir) - biography
- Sir Peter Medawar's years as director of NIMR: a vignette
Medevedev, Zhores - autobiography
- A dangerous occupation
Medical normality
- Am I normal, Doctor? The boundaries of disease and wellness
Medical risk
- Risk
Memory
- Some things you wanted to know about memory but forgot to ask
- Nootropia: A smart new world?
Memory disorders
- Some things you wanted to know about memory but forgot to ask
Meningitis
- Meningitis: fresh hopes for its eradication
Mental disorders
- Lithium, manic depression and beyond
Metabolic enzymes
- Lithium, manic depression and beyond
Microbes
- From microbes to cancer
Microchip analytical procedures
- Laboratory robotics and high-throughput research
Microfluidics
- Laboratory robotics and high-throughput research
Mitochondria
- Where do genes come from? The case of the "green" parasites
MMR vaccine
- Can the biomedical community eradicate a disease like measles?
Model organisms
- Why flies are relevant to medical research
Molecular biology
- Invisible Frontiers
Molecular sequence data, patents
- Patenting human genes
Moral implications
- Don't shoot the scientist!
Morphogenesis
- Morphogens: molecules that tell cells in the embryo where they are
Morphological variation
- Am I normal, Doctor? The boundaries of disease and wellness
Mosquitoes
- The malaria revolution: from mosquitoes to molecules
Movement
- Sport, movement and molecules
MRSA
- The social life of disease-causing bacteria
Multiple Sclerosis
- M S
Mumps, prevention & control
- MMR vaccination and suggested links with Crohn's disease
Muscle
- Sport, movement and molecules
Muscle, cardiac
- Heart disease genetics
Mutation
- "A lottery ticket and a packet of cigarettes, please."
Mycobacterium bovis
- Tuberculosis in man, cattle and badgers
- Living and dying with the tubercle bacillus
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis in man, cattle and badgers
- Living and dying with the tubercle bacillus
Mycobacterium tuberculosis - genetics
- Living and dying with the tubercle bacillus
Mycobacterium tuberculosis - geographic distribution
- Living and dying with the tubercle bacillus
Myelin sheath
- M S
Myocardium
- Heart disease genetics

N

N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine
- Drugs and addiction, ecstasy and cannabis
National Institute for Medical Research - history
Nature vis Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human - book review
- Genes, learning, behaviour and the outside world
Nerve regeneration
- Unravelling the workings of the brain
Neurobiology
Neurotransmitters
- Unravelling the workings of the brain
- Drugs and addiction, ecstasy and cannabis

O

Obesity
- The obesity epidemic; fat, fact and fiction!
Obesity, drug therapy
- The fat of the land
Organ regeneration
- What makes bone marrow such a versitile resource for curing human diseases?
Organizations, nonprofit
- Sharing the benefits of biomedical science

p

Papillomavirus
- Warts and all
Paramyxoviridae
- Distemper and influenza at Mill Hill
Patents
- Patenting human genes
Patient education
- Health-care and the advent of the Information Society
Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Nootropia: A smart new world?
- Past and present interplay of chemistry and biology at NIMR
Pharmaceuticals
- Sharing the benefits of biomedical science
Photochemotherapy
- Past and present interplay of chemistry and biology at NIMR
Phototherapy
- Seasonal depression and light therapy
Physical biochemistry
- How I became a physical biochemist - a Jack of all trades and master of none
Physiological adaption - high altitude
- Conquistadores and cot death
Plasmodium falciparum
- The red road
- The malaria revolution: from mosquitoes to molecules
Plasmodium vivax
- The malaria revolution: from mosquitoes to molecules
Poverty
- Health in Africa
Protein kinase inhibitors
- Glivec, CML, Abl and targeted molecular therapy for cancer
Public health
- Citizenship and the medical sciences
Public perceptions and attitudes

Q

Quality control
- Health-care and the advent of the Information Society

R

Radiation
- "A lottery ticket and a packet of cigarettes, please."
Reference values
- So you want to be normal
Reproduction
- Are "saviour siblings" a humane and proper use of reproductive technology?
- Conquistadores and cot death
Reproduction, asexual
- Cloning
Reproductive techniques, assisted
- Are "saviour siblings" a humane and proper use of reproductive technology?
Research
- The ethical conduct of scientific research
- Stem cell therapy and research
Ridley, Matt - author
- Genes, learning, behaviour and the outside world
Risk compensation
- Risk
Risk perception
- Risk
RNA
- RNAi: the gentle art of shredding genes
RNA interference
- RNAi: the gentle art of shredding genes
Robotics
- Laboratory robotics and high-throughput research
Rubella, prevention & control
- MMR vaccination and suggested links with Crohn's disease
Russian science
- A dangerous occupation

S

Salmon
- Infectious Salmon Anaemia
Science
- The ethical conduct of scientific research
- Don't shoot the scientist!
Science - history
- A dangerous occupation
- The Age of Wonder
- God's Philosophers
Scientific technologies
- Don't shoot the scientist!
Scientists, female
- Rosalind Franklin - The dark lady of DNA
Scientists, male
- Sir Peter Medawar's years as director of NIMR: a vignette
Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Seasonal depression and light therapy
Senesence
- Ageing: why, how and what happens next
Skloot, Rebecca - author
- Immortality and obscurity
- The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Somatotropin
- So you want to be normal
Spermatogenesis
- The rise in human infertility - tragedy or godsend
Spinal cord injuries
- Stroke and spinal injury
- Unravelling the workings of the brain
Sport
- Sport, movement and molecules
Staphylococcal infections
- The social life of disease-causing bacteria
Statistical data analysis
- Something in the air or a simple twist of fate?
Stem cell therapy
- Stem cell therapy and research
- Stem cells: sorting out the hope from the hype
- What makes bone marrow such a versitile resource for curing human diseases?
Stem cells
- Stem cell therapy and research
- Stem cells: sorting out the hope from the hype
Streptomycin
- Descending the Magic Mountain; how early clinical trials transformed the treatment of tuberculosis
Stroke
- Stroke and spinal injury
Substance-related disorders
- Drugs and addiction, ecstasy and cannabis
Sudden Cardiac Death
- Am I normal, Doctor? The boundaries of disease and wellness
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Conquistadores and cot death
Symbiosis
- Hitch-hiking DNA - a guide
- Where do genes come from? The case of the "green" parasites
Symmetry
- How and why our right and left sides differ
Synapses
- Unravelling the workings of the brain
- Nootropia: A smart new world?
Systems biology
- Systems biology

T

Technology transfer
- Patenting human genes
Tomography
- Nanographia
Transgenic animals
- Don't shoot the scientist!
Translational research
- Translation: beating scientific swords into medical ploughshares
Transplantation, heterologous
- Xenotransplantation: panacea or poisoned chalice
- Heart of a Dog
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, bovine
- Tuberculosis in man, cattle and badgers
Tuberculosis, therapy
- Descending the Magic Mountain; how early clinical trials transformed the treatment of tuberculosis

V

Vaccination
- MMR vaccination and suggested links with Crohn's disease
Vaccines
Vietnam
- Alexandre Yersin and his adventures in Vietnam
Viruses
- Warts and all
- Distemper and influenza at Mill Hill

W

Warts
- Warts and all
Water supply
- Fighting for family health in the developing world
Werth, Barry - author
- The Billion Dollar Molecule
Women scientists
- Rosalind Franklin - The dark lady of DNA

X

Xenopus leavis
- Of frogs and men
Xenotransplantation
- Xenotransplantation: panacea or poisoned chalice

Y

Yeasts, genetics
- From microbes to cancer
Yersin, Alexandre - biography
- Alexandre Yersin and his adventures in Vietnam

Z

Zhukovsky, Petr
- A dangerous occupation
Zygote intrafallopian transfer
- Stem cell therapy and research

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