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Research Features

Our research features take a more in-depth look at selected aspects of our research and the wider impacts of our science for the wider world. Browse all of these articles in the reader window below or access specific features directly from the introductions further down the page. These features were originally produced as part of our Annual Research Reports.
 

21/05/2025

Opening up the research toolkit

This feature was written by Becky Allen for the 2023-2024 Â鶹ÊÓƵ Review.

In 2024, Professor Kai-Michael Toellner joined the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Immunology programme after 30 years at the University of Birmingham’s Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Immunology and Immunotherapy. We find out what drew him from the UK’s second-largest city to the Babraham Research Campus, the pressing questions he wants to answer, and why it’s vital we understand more about how our immune system works.

 By Becky Allen

17/10/2023

The legacy of liposomes: how fundamental research keeps on giving

The history of liposomes from discovery to vaccine delivery. This narrative was written by Honor Pollard and Louisa Wood as part of the  

 By Honor Pollard

29/11/2021

Responding to the COVID crisis

This feature was written by Becky Allen for the Annual Research Report 2019-2020.

As well as exposing weaknesses in healthcare systems and supply chains, the coronavirus pandemic has underscored the importance of fundamental research and collective effort. During 2020, scientists rose to the challenge of developing new vaccines and effective treatments for Covid-19. Â鶹ÊÓƵ immunologists Dr Michelle Linterman and Professor Adrian Liston describe how their labs responded and the lessons we must learn.

 By Becky Allen