Medicine and Biology
Science meets medicine
From the mid-nineteenth century science contributes to diagnosis and treatment.
Marie Curie
Marie Curie and the history of radioactivity: find out about the extraordinary work of Marie Curie and her family.
Medicine as new technology
New science helps medicine identify and cure previously untreatable problems.
The MMR files
Armed with your questions, fears and arguments we set off to interrogate the major players in the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccine.
Your brain
You couldn't work without your brain. It is responsible for everything you do - waking in the morning, remembering who you are and where you live and feelings of love, happiness or sadness.
Your genes
You have your genes to thank - or blame - for your appearance. Genes are your body's instruction manual. They affect the way you look, your health, and the way your body works.
Your life-cycle
You started life as a cell, smaller than a pin-prick, but are now made up of about a 100 million million cells. Find out more about how your body changes over the course of your life.
Living medical traditions
Across the world, many different medical traditions thrive, each one changing and developing in response to the shifting culture in which it is practiced.
