Covid future and revolutionary microscopy - #RAZOR
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Mass vaccination programs for COVID-19 are being carried out around the world but not every country can afford vaccines and governments are following different strategies to contain the virus. So what will the future look like? Emma Keeling speaks to an epidemiologist in New Zealand to find out why their strategy was so successful and asks a virologist in America whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus here to stay?
Also in this episode: Cryogenic Electron Microscopy, a technique for imaging biological molecules, has recently broken resolution records to enable visualization of the individual atoms that make up proteins for the first time. Frankie McCamley visits the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge to find out more about the resolution revolution.
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