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 →

Freshers’ Week – 1870 style TAGS: Edinburgh | ewart | fresher | Freshers Week | sophia jex-blake | University of Edinburgh This week is one of the busiest times of the year for the University of Edinburgh, and a momentous week for our brand new students – it’s Fresher’s Week! The …Continue reading →

‘Lotte’: Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994) TAGS: auerbach | drosophila | genetics | mosaics | muller | mustard gas | mutagenesis | mutation | neurospora Recently I have been cataloguing the various papers we have concerning Charlotte Auerbach (known as ‘Lotte’ to her friends), who passed away 20 years ago this year. Mention has already been …Continue reading →

IVF: 36 years on TAGS: beatty | controversy | edwards | in vitro | ivf | louise brown | media | test tube Since its beginnings, the science of genetics has been concerned with questions of how life is made, how characteristics are passed down through generations, and how variations occur within species. …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 5 to 6 TAGS: Careers | employ.ed | hidden collections | Intern | lesya ukrainka | new zealand | RAB | robert bruce | ukrain Three quarters of the internship now behind me, I have decided to focus on actually finishing off projects that I have been working on – and that means the New …Continue reading →

Presentation skills Giving lectures is a prominent aspect of working life for many academics, as the animal genetics archives here at Edinburgh University Library Special Collections show. Most of the collections of scientists’ personal …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 2 to 4 TAGS: Annexe | Careers | Hidden | Intern | Nelson Archive | new zealand | Polynesian Society | Projects | Thomas Nelson Halfway through the internship, so here comes another update from the Annexe. These few weeks have been a lot more eventful than I would have expected. Let me try and …Continue reading →