From left: Professor Sarah Gilbert, 59, of Oxford University; Per Alfredsson, 51, at the AstraZeneca facility in Gärtuna, SwedenIn May 2020, a group of scientists at Oxford University loaded three 30ml and five 6ml tubes into a small polystyrene box, and carefully packed them in dry ice. This box was then given to a courier who specialised in temperature-controlled shipping, and driven to Heathrow. Yet it was almost certainly the most important package on the move in the world at the time. SponsoredFrom Heathrow, the eight tubes, which contained billions of viral particles, the result of months of work by a team led by a scientist called Professor Sarah Gilbert, were flown to Washington Dulles airport in the USA. From Dulles airport, they began the final leg of their journey,

Source: The Times August 06, 2021 16:06 UTC