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Image of the Week: Scalded skin cells (updated)
[UPDATE: This entry has been corrected from a previous version, which attributed the skin cell damage shown below to sun exposure.] Today we celebrate the Fourth of July with an electron microscope...
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Image of the week: Cryptococcosis
The Pacific Northwest made a strong appearance in the news this week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on the emergence of a deadly fungus there. Cryptococcus...
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Image of the week: surgical instruments, 1561
The above image shows a drawing of surgical tools, from French surgeon Ambroise Paré’s La methode curative des playes, et fractures de la teste humaine (“The Method of Treating Wounds and Fractures of...
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Image of the week: adjusting surgical couch, 1854
The above image shows an 1854 patent specification for an adjusting surgical couch, by Edmund Adolphus Kirby. The specification is part of the Wellcome Library’s catalogue of 158 volumes of patents...
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Image of the week: brass corset, 19th century
The corset is infamous as an instrument of fashion and oppression. But the metal versions, like the one shown in the image above, are thought to have been used as orthopedic devices. Valerie Steele...
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Image of the week: dental instruments, late 19th century
The above image shows a set of dental instruments from the late 19th century. It’s No. 5 of 8 in a series showing the evolution of medical instruments over time. The images are presented in...
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Image of the week: high-throughput cell culture robot, 2007
The above photograph, from 2007, shows a high-throughput cell culture robot. According to Wellcome Images: “Cells are cultured in the incubator on the right and the culture plates delivered via a...
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Image of the week: Your brain on love
Passionate feelings of love activate reward systems in the brain and can block the sensation of pain, according to neuroimaging research published this week by Stanford professor Sean Mackey, MD, PhD....
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Image of the week: Bedbug
The news just keeps getting worse on the bedbug front. Above, a digitally-colored scanning electron micrograph of Cimex lectularius shows the insect’s six jointed legs and “skin-piercing mouthparts.”...
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