Chemistry Images: Pre-16

THE WELLCOME TRUST

Most of the of the following titles are for reference only. They can be viewed by the general public at the above premises by prior arrangement.

Allergic to the Twentieth Century

An investigation into the various causes of asthma. The programme begins by looking at an severe outbreak in Barcelona 1981. The causes looked at include environmental, chemical, physical, and the body's immunological defence to parasitic worm infection, no longer required, but easily activated by airborne substances.

The programme ends with a look at research into the effect of exposure to allergens during the first year of life.

50 minutes. 1993 PAL VHS tape

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• allergens
• asthma

Exhausted

This programme looks at the increasing link between nitrogen dioxide produced as vehicle exhaust and the rise of asthma in Britain, Germany, sweden and canada. Mainly interviews and discussion of statistical data.

30 minutes. 1993 PAL VHS tape

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• asthma
• nitrogen dioxide
• vehicle exhaust

Life is Impossible

Scientists present competing theories as to how life began on earth, possibly in a carbon dioxide rich atmosphere. The mystery is to find the origin of nucleic acids: DNA or RNA.

60 minutes. 1993 PAL VHS tape

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• carbon dioxide atmosphere
• DNA
• origins of life
• RNA

The Mould, the Myth and the Microbe

A programme looking at the discovery and exploitation of penicillin. This programme concentrates on Florey, chains and Heatley's contribution to the above rather than Fleming's original discovery.

50 minutes. 1986. PAL VHS tape

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• Chain, Ernest
• Fleming, Alexander
• Florey, Howard
• Heatley, Norman
• penicillin