MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London

Science for Health

Ageing - why, how and what happens next? - Michael G. Sargent
- The mechanisms of ageing and the reasons why we don’t stay young forever.
Sir Peter Medawar’s years as director of NIMR: a vignette - Leslie Brent
- An appreciation of Peter Medawar, the brilliant, Nobel-prize-winning scientist, philosopher and gifted populariser of science.
Living and dying with the tubercle bacillus - Douglas Young and Sebastien Gagneux
- Understanding the past history of tuberculosis can help to tackle the disease today.
Stem cells: sorting out the hope from the hype - Alex P. Gould and François Guillemot
- How stem cells work and what their therapeutic uses are.
Nanographia - Peter Rosenthal
- Modern biology uses a range of imaging techniques to study cells and the molecules within cells.
How I became a physical biochemist - a Jack of all trades and master of none - John Eccleston
- A vivid picture of life in biochemical laboratories in the 1960s.
Why do we need ‘programmed cell death’ (apoptosis)? - Muhammad Ashraf
- Why apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is such an important biological process. Written by a student at Queen Elizabeth’s School, joint winner of the 2009 NIMR Human Biology Essay competition.
Can the biomedical community eradicate a disease like measles? - Alastair McFarlane
- Is it feasible to eradicate infectious diseases such as measles? Written by a student at Queen Elizabeth’s School, joint winner of the 2009 NIMR Human Biology Essay competition.

Mill Hill Essays