McLaren: Sketchbook with labelled drawings of various animals
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Sketchbook with labelled drawings of various animals, divided by phylum and class. Additional material includes a loose paper containing notes on 'Fixatives'.
Includes: ‘Molecular, cellular and in vivo aspects of Teratogenicity; basic and empirical validation of a new in vitro cell assay’ ‘Factors Influencing the Human Sex-Ratio’ Grant application to attend a conference ‘Hormonal control of sexual differentiation and testicular descent’ ‘Male-specific...
Includes: ‘Proteome Analysis of the Developing Mouse Gonad’ ‘Mechanism of XY Sex Reversal in Wood Lemming’ ‘Identification of genes involved in haematopoietic stem cell differentiation during embryonic development of the mouse' ‘Differentiation of Murine Premigratory Primordial Germ Cells in Cu...
Includes: ‘Blockage of telomerase function in various proliferating cells’ ‘Growth factors and regulatory genes controlling, male germ-line stem cell proliferation and differentiation’ ‘The Molecular basis of hybridogenesis’ ‘Genomic imprinting in sex reversed mice’ 'Establishment of spermatogon...
Includes: ‘Equine embryonic stem cells’ ‘A systematic analysis of imprinted retrotransposed genes’ ‘Understanding apoptosis relating to retinal diseases: integration of in silico, in vitro, and in vivo analysis for drug design’ ‘X-chromosome inactivation and pluripotency in mouse primordial germ...
McLaren: Charles Darwin’s Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. “Beagle”
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Charles Darwin’s Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. “Beagle”, 1933, ed. Nora Barlow, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. With handwritten inscription on the inside front cover, ‘From R. A. Fisher, 6 Oct 1952’.
Notebook with notes, tables and graphs on various topics, including 'Surface Tension of Soap Solutions' 'Determination of the Thermal Conductivity of Glass', 'Latent Heat of Mercury', 'Vapour Pressure of Water'. Additional material includes 15 page of handwritten notes primarily on 'Modern Physic...
McLaren: Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London
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Includes: 1. Correspondence with King’s College London and The Royal Society. 2. Agendas and minutes of meetings of the Board of Advisors of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics. 3. Papers on the questions of 'Should we allow research on 'specially created' or only 'spare' pre-embryos?' and...