Wellcome Images

From 6 November 2017 our image collections will be moving to a new website: http://www.wellcomecollection.org/works.
We’ll be posting about our image collections from https://www.facebook.com/wellcomecollecti on and https://twitter.com/ExploreWellcome from now on - you can follow us there!

This week's Wellcome image of the week is the Placenta Rainbow, a 2017 Wellcome Image Award winner.
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This week's Wellcome image of the week: Two young boys in rural Nicaragua
A 2017 Wellcome Image Award winning image on chronic kidney disease associated with heavy labour in hot temperatures.
Read all about this deadly kidney disease - and how climate change is making it worse - in-depth in Mosaic's story of the week: https://mosaicscience.com/…/climate-cha nge-deadly-epidemic-…
... Image credit: Joshua Mcdonald
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Browse all the winners and vote for your favourite on wellcomeimageawards.org
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This week's Wellcome image of the week is a 2017 Wellcome Image Award winner, a caricature of medieval medical practitioners.
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This week's Wellcome image of the week is Brain-on-a-chip.
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The Wellcome Image Awards are now on display on Floor 2 at Glasgow Science Centre. For a full list of the venues exhibiting the Wellcome Image Awards visit our website wellcomeimageawards.org/about/about-the-a wards/
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The Wellcome Image Awards are now on display at Techniquest in Cardiff. For a full list of the venues exhibiting the Wellcome Image Awards visit our website wellcomeimageawards.org/about/about-the-a wards/
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This week's Wellcome image of the week is an illustration of the Italian Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini.
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Thought-provoking article on 2017's Wellcome Image Award winning image and the artist's experience of Crohn's disease
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Congratulations to Mark Bartley! It was announced at tonight's Wellcome Image Awards Ceremony that Mark is the winner of this year's Julie Dorrington Award for outstanding photography in a clinical environment.
Find out more about Mark's image here: www.wellcomeimageawards.org/2017/intraocu la-lens-iris-clip
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... Image credit: Mark Bartley, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Congratulations to Spooky Pooka! It was announced at tonight's Wellcome Image Awards ceremony that Spooky Pooka is the overall winner of the Wellcome Image Awards 2017!
The winning image is a haunting evocation of the transformative nature of Crohn’s disease. This image; 'Stickman; the vicissitudes of Crohn’s (resolution)' is part of a series surrounding the central character of Stickman, the alter ego of the artist, who himself suffers from the disease.
Find out more about ...Spooky Pooka's image here: www.wellcomeimageawards.org/…/stickman- the-vicissitudes-of-…
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Image credit: Spooky Pooka
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