Science on a Plate: an evolution I have been based in the Digital Imaging Unit, digitising the Roslin Glass Plate Slide Collection, since October last year as part of the ‘Science on a Plate’ project, funded by …Continue reading →

St Cecilia’s Hall in the News! TAGS: Grant | Project | St Cecilia's Hall The St Cecilia’s Hall Project is in the news, thanks to our grant of £100,000 from Edinburgh World Heritage! See online story here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/facelift-for-concert-hall-with-no-equal-in-paris-or-london.119359358

Google Cultural Institute I was lucky enough to attend the Europeana loCloud Hackathon at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris, on February 11th. While I was too late to actually do any hacking …Continue reading →

Edinburgh’s first geneticist: Arthur Darbishire (1879-1915) TAGS: animal genetics | genetics | Towards Dolly | Untold stories In 1911, the University of Edinburgh appointed its first Lecturer in Genetics. The Lectureship was the first academic genetics post in Britain – the Balfour Chair in Genetics at the …Continue reading →

Mary Lyon (1925-2014) – Edinburgh connections TAGS: Edinburgh | genetics | genome | mary lyon | mottled | mouse | muscular dystrophy | mutants | x-chromosome We were saddened to hear recently of the passing of Mary Lyon, a distinguished mouse geneticist. Born in 1925 in Norwich, Mary was best known for her X-chromosome inactivation hypothesis, …Continue reading →

Frozen: The story of Frostie the calf TAGS: biotechnology | calf | chris polge | dolly the sheep | Edinburgh | embryo | freezing | frostie | liquid nitrogen | reproductive physiology | roslin | wilmut Ian Wilmut is best known for his involvement with the team which cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996. However, his scientific career, which spans more than five decades, includes a variety …Continue reading →

Science From The Tomb… TAGS: ancient egypt | beatty | Edinburgh | genetics | halloween | institute of animal genetics | mummies | reproductive physiology It’s nearly Hallowe’en, when spooky subjects are foremost in our minds. An ideal time, then, to look at some rather unusual correspondence from the Richard Alan Beatty archive about Egyptian mummies! At first …Continue reading →

Dolly Pops Up… TAGS: dolly the sheep | Towards Dolly Did you know that Edinburgh has been a world leader in genetics for over a century? And that there’s definitely more to cloning than just Dolly the sheep? Come to …Continue reading →

Dame Anne McLaren (1927-2007) TAGS: alan beatty | anne mclaren | fertility | in vitro | institute of animal genetics | mammalian development | reproductive biology | royal society | waddington It’s always great to receive comments and feedback from our blog readers, especially those which suggest subjects or people which we haven’t yet featured. We have a growing list of posts …Continue reading →

Cataloguing the HIV/Aids Collections held in LHSA Our story begins in 2011, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic related records held by Lothian Health Services Archive were awarded an inscription on the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register …Continue reading →