Claire O Connell

You work at at American Museum of Natural History in New York, which sounds amazing – what do you do there? It is pretty much a dream job, doing scien(...)

When Irish scientist Prof Tess (Teresa) Lambe heard the interim results of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trials at the weekend, she almost b(...)

Public trust in science has built up strongly during the Covid-19 pandemic, but if there is no breakthrough over the next six months on a vaccine this(...)

Your research on the Covid-19 virus was featured recently by the New York Times – can you tell us more? That was so exciting. It was about the work w(...)

With the shorter evenings closing in, it’s high time to stock up on reading material. Maybe you want to escape thoughts of Covid-19 entirely. But if y(...)

There can be few people who like having a swab pushed up their nose to get a test for the Covid-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2. Wouldn’t it be easier if we coul(...)

You want to reduce the stress on barley – how does barley get stressed? Plants experience different kinds of stress, including having too much rainfa(...)

Fergal, you work on materials to fix bone and cartilage, can you explain? In my lab, the Tissue Engineering Research Group, we develop materials made(...)

Congratulations, you have just been awarded European Research Council funding – those grants are hard to get. What will your project be about? Thank (...)

You are working on a much-anticipated Covid-19 vaccine at Oxford. When did you start on that? Back in early January, I was watching what was happeni(...)