The development of COVID-19 treatments, tests, drugs and vaccines will be accelerated by molecular understanding of the COVID-19 virus. Roger Highfield, Science Director, looks at what is happening in Britain’s most prestigious molecular biology laboratory.

Roger Highfield, Science Director, discusses how digital technologies can curb COVID-19 with Hannah Fry, who conducted a prescient simulation of a UK outbreak, and Dr Alice Tan of MizMedi Women’s Hospital, who explains why South Korea’s death toll is relatively low.

Curator Katie Dabin explores how 1960s research into the common cold helped reveal the first coronavirus.

The first encouraging news in the global hunt for treatments to curb the pandemic was reported last week. Roger Highfield, Science Director, describes the race to cure COVID-19.

Roger Highfield, Science Director, outlines the science of lockdowns and how to end the pandemic.

Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to Ajit Lalvani, who recently recovered from a serious COVID-19 infection and is now undertaking a major pandemic study

Science Director Roger Highfield examines the vaccines under development which may help bring the coronavirus crisis to an end.

Roger Highfield, Science Director, explains the central importance of testing for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.