https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/artwork-roxana-halls/
…worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic.’ Post-mortem and mortuary services are rarely talked about publicly. The few news reports centred on temporary COVID-19 mortuary facilities being set up with a…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/covid-19-pandemic-art-how-do-artists-visualise-covid-19/
…in a pandemic. For more on the Science Museum’s art and COVID-19 collections: – COVID-19: Pandemic Art with Angela Palmer and David Goodsell – COVID-19: Pandemic Art with Grayson Perry…
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…and play’ of the COVID-19 into our Japanese encephalitis manufacturing and development to make our COVID-19 vaccine, which we call VLA 2001. Our COVID-19 vaccine consists of inactivated whole virus…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-the-global-covid-19-observatory/
…effectiveness of vaccines. The UK is leading the world in tracking the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium having already sequenced around 180,000 viral…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-the-spike/
…it docks with a human cell. Ke, Z., Briggs, J. et al. Nature (2020). CAN COVID-19 DRUGS TARGET THE SPIKE? Understanding the spike can help develop drugs which could work…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-virtual-pandemics/
…place. There are also a lot of people walking around with COVID-19 who don’t know it. HOW DO WE TEST THESE MODELS? Imperial’s CovidSim model has now been studied by…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/planet-primed-for-animal-infections-to-spillover-into-humans/
Viruses that circulate in animals have caused many serious diseases in humans – that was the story of HIV, of SARS, of MERS, of Ebola and now of COVID-19. The…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/revealing-the-first-coronavirus/
…COVID-19’s impact on everyday life. Collecting COVID-19 ethically, broadly and from a distance, is underway right now for the Science Museum Group Collection. Watch this space for further stories connected…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-loneliness-of-the-pandemic-student/
…is one of a small selection of objects that each tell a powerful story of the loneliness experienced by young people during COVID-19 and is accompanied by a unique archive…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/a-shot-felt-around-the-world-vaccines-diplomacy-and-the-power-of-science/
Earlier this month Kolkata — the ‘City of Joy’ — opened Vaccines Injecting Hope: The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, the final leg of a touring exhibition that marked a…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-how-to-vaccinate-a-nation/
…dose of COVID-19 vaccine to around 23 million people, of which 19 million were in England. On Thursday 11 March, the Science Museum in London joined the vast nationwide network…
https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/covid-vaccine-to-go-on-display/
…from Margaret’s historic immunisation will now join the Science Museum Group Collection, a highlight of our significant COVID-19 Collecting project. https://twitter.com/nhsuhcw/status/1336234728563863553 It has been acquired for the national collection alongside…