Caffeine Crystals - Wellcome Images
Aspirine Crystals - Wellcome Images
Human Embryo - Wellcome Images
Brain cells - Wellcome Images
Wellcome Trust is a global foundation dedicated to improving human and animal health. It embeds
biomedical science in the historical and cultural landscape. Recently the organisation got involved with a lot of
art and cultural projects and opened its digital archives to the public view. They can be used for design-related purposes through
Creative Commons licence. This way
Wellcome Images - an
online bank of photographs has been created.
Wellcome Images are connected with
biomedicine and the
history of science with many entertaining bits such as 19th century newspaper ads promoting bizzare gym equipment. The most beautiful photos are those made with the use of an
electron microscope. They look like works of art and make me realize that I don't even know how my body works let along nature's other secrets.
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Wellcome Images work like Shutterstock or Getty Images. Unlike them, however, a large part of Wellcome archives can be used for
free for
non-commercial purposes. Some of the photos covering dissected models or cancer cells are a bit disturbing. But the purpose of the Wellcome Trust is to help those who are not well and document the development of medicine in the cultural and social context.
Wellcome Images http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/
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