Meet the Collections Managers TAGS: Course reading | Library Resources Plus | pop up library Hannah and I can’t wait to meet some of our users tomorrow, when we do our Pop Up Library session on the 1st floor of the Main Library. We will …Continue reading →

Printed Material Highlights from the Roslin Collection TAGS: coffee | dolly the sheep | evolution | roslin institute With phase I of the Towards Dolly project ending for me, the Rare Books Cataloguer, I thought to look back over the material I’ve worked with and to highlight a …Continue reading →

A Sample of the Roslin Institute’s Cloning Research Post-Dolly: 1998 and 2007 TAGS: cloning | dolly the sheep | nuclear transfer | roslin institute As mentioned in a previous post, Dolly, the sheep caused a media sensation in 1997 as the first cloned animal using a nuclear transfer process  and so, I thought it …Continue reading →

Hermann J Muller (1890-1967), American Geneticist: Radiation and Mutation Studies in the USA, USSR and Edinburgh TAGS: genetics | radiation | USSR Continuing with the Soviet –Edinburgh genetics link, this week’s post focuses on the American geneticist and Nobel laureate, Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967) known for his work on the physiological and …Continue reading →

Dollymania – Seven Days that Shook the World TAGS: biotechnology | cloning | dolly the sheep | roslin institute 1997 was quite a significant year for the Roslin Institute with “’Dolly, the sheep, ‘…the first mammal cloned from a cell from an adult animal…generated an amazing amount of interest …Continue reading →

FAE Crew’s Off-Prints (1814-1940) TAGS: animal genetics | biology | birds | human genetics In addition to the off-prints of the various past organizations that made up the Roslin Institute, we have FAE Crew’s collection.  The majority of the off-prints in his collection, found …Continue reading →

Wallace on War: WWI Images in the Roslin Glass Slides Collection TAGS: animals in war | political cartoons | WWI In a previous post, I wrote about Professor Robert Wallace, (1853 – 1939), who taught Scientific Agriculture and Rural Economy at the University of Edinburgh and how many of the glass …Continue reading →

ASCUS talk: Genetics in the Archives: Inspiring New Art TAGS: Archives | artwork | epigenetics | genetics   Another way we promote the project is by giving talks and last Wednesday we had the exciting opportunity to collaborate with both ASCUS: the Art and Science Collaborative and …Continue reading →