On a dark December morning in 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccination given as part of a mass immunisation programme was delivered in the West Midlands.
We spoke with Stewart Emmens, Lead Curator of Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine, and Natasha McEnroe, Keeper of Medicine about its impact.
18 July 2022 marks the 161st birthday of Kadambini Ganguly, one of India’s first two female university graduates and the first Indian woman to practice Western Medicine. In this blog, Assistant Curator Laura Büllesbach explores her remarkable life, the barriers she broke, and the doors she opened for others.
As the latest Doctor is unveiled, Science Director Roger Highfield discusses the science of regeneration with developmental biologist, Sir Jim Smith.
Lynch Syndrome Awareness Day is observed annually on 22 March. Our Curator of Medicine Selina Hurley, explains the history of this condition and more contemporary developments in its research.
Assistant curator Dr. Rebecca Mellor explores the life and work of Tu YouYou, Nobel Prize winner and the first person to discover a cure to Malaria.
Roger Highfield, Science Director, celebrates a milestone in reading the entire complement of human DNA, or genome, which reveals a hidden landscape of human genetics.
Vaccines have met with suspicion and hostility for as long as they have existed. In this blog post, Sir Ian Blatchford reflects on how the tone of debate between scientists and vaccine opponents has been remarkably unchanged since Victorian times.
Roger Highfield, Science Director, describes how genetic engineering has been taken to a new level by artificial organisms that can make novel kinds of polymer, an advance with potentially huge implications for medicine, catalysts, materials and more.
American inventor Mary Kenner spent her life inventing objects that made everyday tasks easier for people. To mark her birthday, Assistant Curator Rebecca Raven explores her life and work, including the invention of the sanitary belt, which played an important but overlooked role in the development of menstrual products.
Curator Imogen Clarke looks back at the history of vaccine hesitancy through items in the Science Museum Group Collection.
Curators Katy Barrett and Sarah Bond explore the connections between Jenny Holzer’s For Science and Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries for which it was commissioned.
Roger Highfield, Science Director, helped judge the annual Max Perutz Science Writing Award, which this year was dominated by entries about cancer