Science Source January 20, 2009 DVD

Tamoxifen and Rolaxifene, two drugs used to prevent and treat breast cancer.

Laboratory technicians under sterile conditions process antibiotics that are active against cancer. They are totally enclosed in protective clothing t...

Pacific yew trees (Taxus brevifolin) were once the subject of an environmental controversy over the production of Taxol, also known as Paclitaxel, a c...

Surgeons and a nurse performing a thoracoscopy to examine the pleural cavity by means of an endoscope to later perform a biopsy.

Two surgeons performing an operation.

Reserpine in tablet form being counted out to fill a prescription in a pharmacy.

A technician positions a female cancer patient in front of a linear accelerator in preparation for radiation treatment.

Close-up of a cancer patient's body prior to radiation treatment. A lighted scale is projected onto the body to exactly line up the treatment with the...

A female cancer patient being readied for radiation therapy.

A computer generated image displays focused, positively charged atomic particles. Proton beam therapy uses protons to destroy cancer cells, rather tha...

Proton beam from the brain during CT scans. Using dozens of CT slices, a computer produced this three-dimensional representation of the eyes and optic...

Proton beam from the brain during CT scans. Top view of proton beams entering head. Bright pink area is tumor. Beams are focused only in this area red...

Close up of surgeons' hands in an operating room with a beam of light traveling along fiber optics during photodynamic therapy. Its source is a laser...

A beam of light travels along fiber optics during photodynamic therapy. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create th...

Patient being treated with hyperthermia. Whole body hyperthermia is a method used to raise a patient's body temperature for the treatment of advanced...

Whole body hyperthermia is a method used to raise a patient's body temperature for the treatment of advanced cancer. This technique is based on labora...

The pathognomonic erythematous rash in the pattern of a bullseye, which manifested at the site of a tick bite on a woman's posterior right upper arm....

The pathognomonic erythematous rash in the pattern of a bullseye, which manifested at the site of a tick bite on a woman's woman's posterior right upp...

A lab technician at the Center for Disease Control making notations on a Petri plate from a group of culture plates, which had grown Fusarium fungal c...

A lab technician at the Center for Disease Control harvesting organisms from a Petri plate from a group of culture plates, in order to create a Fusari...

A doctor (rear) and lab technician (front) at the Center for Disease Control examining test tubes containing Fusarium-isolate subcultures, which had b...

A severely swollen knee due to an infection caused by the subcutaneous emergence of an adult female guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis). 10 to 14 mon...

STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP). Uttar Pradesh in northern India. An Indian health care provider administering an oral polio vaccine to a new baby,...

Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP). Health care providers in the process of interviewing parents outside a polio immunization site in Uttar Pradesh in...

Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP). A sign displayed in Gorakhpur, India, advertising a Pulse Polio Vaccination Program scheduled to take place on Febr...

Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP). A mother holding her child while displaying a polio vaccination record, which indicates the child has been properly...

Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP). This image depicts a number of Indian health care practitioners setting up their booth on a country-wide National I...

In this 2000 photograph, polio eradication team members were in the process of interviewing Indian mothers about their children's health history, and...

Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP). The sign pictured in this 2000 image advertises the Pulse Polio Vaccination Campaign. It states that children up to...

STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) program. This 2000 photograph depicts a speaker at a rally promoting the next National Immunization Day (NID) in Ind...

STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) program. This 2000 photograph depicts a local Indian public health care practitioner administering an oral polio vac...

STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) program. This 2000 image depicts a female Indian public health care worker in the process of administering an oral p...

STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) program. This 2000 image depicts a health care worker marking a child who has just received a polio vaccination duri...

This 2000 photograph depicts a STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) clinic worker as she administers an oral polio vaccine dosage to a child during one o...

Through its PolioPlus program, the Rotary International organization is a key STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) immunization initiative partner, in th...

STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) nurse administering an oral polio vaccine to a child under 5 years of age, during a National Immunization Day (NID)...

Through its PolioPlus program, the Rotary International organization is a key STOP Transmission of Polio (STOP) immunization initiative partner, in th...

Team members of the Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP) initiative in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. This 2000 photograph depicts a number of female Ind...

A house in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. The STOP Initiative was part of the Stop Polio Campaign of 2000, which was a global effort to eradicate po...

A research biologist for the University of Maryland's Horn Point Center for Environmental Studies pilots a boat from which chemists collect samples of...

A closeup look at "Burke," the latest pinto bean from the Agricultural Research Service and university plant scientists. It resists a host of harmful...

An entomologist applies spray-dried biopesticide formulations to leaf disks and then allows insects to feed for 1 day. After transferring the insects...

A food technician adds a precise amount of a solution of the B vitamin folate, necessary for red blood cell production, to a dish of applesauce.

At the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's Big Flats (New York) Plant Materials Center, scientists excavate eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dac...

A scientist works on genetic mapping of eastern gamagrass. If the specific location of the genes that control aerenchyma can be found, those genes may...

A plant pathologist (left) and research assistant check the growth of soybeans inoculated with field isolates of Phytophthora sojae. Disease reactions...

Cell cultures can sometimes be used as alternatives for live animals in research. Here, an animal physiologist inspects bovine embryonic cells.

Technician checks on futuristic peach and apple "orchards." Each dish holds tiny experimental trees grown from lab-cultured cells to which researchers...

Agricultural engineer inspects trash removed from cotton during the ginning process. About 100 pounds of foreign matter is cleaned from cotton for eve...

While extracts from exotic plants may thwart whiteflies in the future, other remedies may be right in your kitchen. Researchers in Arizona found that...