Activities
Use our template to make your own adenovirus (common cold virus). Teachers' notes for this activity are also available.
Resources and Links
- See our timeline of key developments in antibody science.
- Read how LMB scientists redefine how our immune system responds to viruses.
- Explore this teaching video on YouTube with an explanation about why we need a different flu vaccine each winter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-M1nIhfIA
- Check out this ‘spotlight’ education resource from the Nature Education pages highlighting key resources (aimed at secondary school level) with a focus on the potential flu epidemic/H1N1: http://www.nature.com/scitable/spotlight/the-h1n1-virus-6902675
- Find out more about the history of vaccines and viral evolution: https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/viruses-and-evolution
- Learn more about how scientists use genetics to understand viruses: https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/science/viruses/
- Visit Cell magazine’s webpages for real microscope pictures, taken by scientists, showing cells fighting it out with viruses: https://www.cell.com/pictureshow/viruses
- Check out this blog for some amazing virus facts and much more about viruses: http://www.virology.ws/2009/10/19/ten-cool-facts-about-viruses/
- See the Microbiology Society page on viruses here: https://microbiologysociety.org/why-microbiology-matters/what-is-microbiology/viruses.html
- Interested in a career in science? Visit the Science Council’s careers website to find out more about jobs and career routes. https://sciencecouncil.org/careers-from-science/promoting-a-science-career/future-morph/
- See how the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have been responding to the COVID pandemic here: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/lmb-covid-19-response/