What Are Microbes?

Professor Neil Ferguson on the current status of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak (15-02-2020). Together with Dr Ilaria Dorigatti and Dr Lucy Okell, he addresses the work of the team on estimated COVID-19 severity in Wuhan, amongst travellers and overall fatality ratio of infections.

Learn how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, and how the antibiotic has changed medicine and the treatment of infections.

This video is part 2 of a series of instructional videos, highlighting the uses of genome sequencing by the National Mycobacterium Reference Service (NMRS) and the workflow of the organisation.