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‘I’ve never worked harder’: the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine

Teresa Lambe is working with AstraZeneca to give the world a shot against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
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Teresa Lambe posing for a portrait in a laboratory at the Jenner Institute wearing a lab coat and blue gloves

Teresa ‘Tess’ Lambe is a vaccine investigator at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, UK. Credit: John Cairns/University of Oxford

Since mid-January, my laboratory at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, UK, has had a clear focus: developing a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The −80 °C freezers in the background contain blood and serum samples from volunteers who have received a trial vaccine. The grey machine on my right reads the level of antibodies in those samples, a key measure of the vaccine’s effectiveness.

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Nature 587, 322 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03139-x

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