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The aim is to develop a vaccine that provides cross-protection against the whole genus, addressing outbreaks, and enhancing epidemic preparedness.

• Updated: 13 March 2024

The Princess Royal today visited UKHSA's Colindale site to open a new laboratory, marking 100 years of the world’s oldest existing collection of bacteria samples.

• Updated: 9 November 2021

Public Health England (PHE) is holding a 2-day virtual exhibition in June to unveil the latest plans for its new public health science campus in Harlow, Essex.

• Updated: 22 May 2020

Sites in Milton Keynes, Glasgow and Alderley Park in Cheshire are now live and are already testing thousands of patient samples for coronavirus (COVID-19) each day.

• Updated: 22 April 2020

The second mega-lab at Alderley Park in Cheshire has begun to test thousands of patient samples a day for coronavirus.

• Updated: 20 April 2020

Pharmaceutical giants and diagnostic companies join forces on plans to roll out millions of coronavirus (COVID-19) tests.

• Updated: 8 April 2020

A paper published in the journal 'Science' demonstrates the impact of portable sequencing on the public health response early in Nigerian Lassa fever outbreak.

• Updated: 4 January 2019

Newsletter from AMRHAI, the national reference laboratory responsible for the detection and investigation of antibiotic resistance.

• Updated: 26 October 2018

Letter from Sir Mark Walport and Dame Sally Davies asking for volunteers to help staff UK diagnostic laboratories in Sierra Leone.

• Updated: 18 November 2014

Three new British Ebola laboratories will speed up diagnosis times across Ebola-struck Sierra Leone

• Updated: 2 November 2014

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