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The Manchester Derby*

*Warning - contains references to football. There are only a few hours to go until the biggest Premier League match of the season. The potential title-decider between Manchester City and Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium. Will we once again see Mario Balotelli lose the plot and spit out his dummy? Fergie will almost certainly be getting through an inordinate amount of chewing gum. But I...

Apr 30th

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HistoriLOLcats

Here’s last week’s caption: And here is next week’s image. Don’t forget to tweet us your caption ideas to @wellcomeimages and yours could be posted here next week! Emily Doyle, Wellcome Images. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc 2.0 UK: England & Wales, see http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/Prices.html  ...

Apr 25th

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Can you guess what it is yet?

Come on! It wasn’t that hard, was it??! Scanning electron micrograph of two *nerve fibres*. The individual *axons* sit within their myelin sheaths (green) and are packed with energy producing mitochondria. The myelin provides a layer of electrical insulation made up of lipids and proteins produced by the Schwann cells. Nobody wins a print this week. Oh well, we’ll just stick it up in...

Apr 24th

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Weird Wellcome

Part Six: A long time ago in an image gallery far, far away…. The Death Star doing a reasonable job of hiding amongst dividing mouse embryos. Image Credit Bernard Maro, Wellcome Images. Microscope image of an eight cell mouse embryo being microinjected with a fluorescent dye into one cell, or Alderaan being destroyed by the Death Star? Image Credit Dr David Becker, Wellcome...

Apr 20th

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HistoriLOLcats

Here is last week’s image caption of some hungry cats: And here is next week’s image. Don’t forget to tweet us your caption ideas to @wellcomeimages and yours could be posted here next week! Emily Doyle, Wellcome Images. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc 2.0 UK: England & Wales,...

Apr 19th

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Can you guess what it is yet?

Saliva! Remember, gobbing in the street can lead to tuberculosis so don’t do it. Part Seven: ? Back to GCSE Biology. Fill in the missing words: Scanning electron micrograph of two _____ _____. The individual _____ sit within their myelin sheaths (green) and are packed with energy producing mitochondria. The myelin provides a layer of electrical insulation made up of lipids and...

Apr 16th

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Weird Wellcome

Part Five: Friday the 13th It’s Friday the 13th, but are you superstitious enough for it to be affecting your day? Perhaps you think it’s just a load of nonsense and nothing to worry about? This study, published in the BMJ in 1993, seems to suggest that it really might be riskier than normal to leave the relative safety of your home on such days. Whichever side you’re taking,...

Apr 13th

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HistoriLOLcats

Congratulations to @glasspetalsmoke for last week’s winning caption: And here is next week’s image, Sir Henry’s cats. Tweet us your caption ideas to @wellcomeimages and yours could be posted here next week! Emily Doyle, Wellcome Images. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc 2.0 UK: England & Wales,...

Apr 12th

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Can you guess what it is yet?

That’s right, the rough endoplasmic reticulum is one of our favourite organelles. It’s the ribosomes that do it. What’s this? Part Six: ? Somewhat related to our most recent blog. Synonyms include spittle, drool, slobber… Can you guess what it is yet? Ruth Milne Harris, Wellcome Images Image credit: Derren Ready, Wellcome Images Copyrighted work available...

Apr 10th

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HistoriLOLcats

Here’s last week’s captioned image: LolCatDance soundsystem. Part Five: And here is this week’s image. If you think you come up with captions just as brilliant as ours, tweet them to us @wellcomeimages for a chance at fame and glory. Well, we’ll post it up here. That’s the best we can do. Al McCartney, Wellcome Images. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London ...

Apr 4th

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Can you guess what it is yet?

Last week’s kelideoscope of colour was…urea crystals! A polarised light micrograph of urea crystals to be precise. Urea is produced in the liver to remove toxic ammonia from the body, travelling in the blood to the kidneys where it is then excreted via the bladder as a component in urine. Nice.  Are you ready for today’s? Part Five: ? Here at Wellcome Images we rate...

Apr 2nd