Photographer Jane Barlow was granted exclusive access to the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research where scientists continue to work on cells infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, in order to determine the genetic makeup of the virus, in the Richard Elliott Biosafety Laboratories (REBL), Containment Level 3 Facilities.
9. Plates that contain both non-infected and SARS-CoV-2 infected cells
Plates that contain both non-infected and SARS-CoV-2 infected cells. These cultures are fluorescently tagged so they can be viewed and labelled easily in different colours on a fluorescent microscope Photo: Jane Barlow
10. Professor David Robertson
Professor David Robertson, head of Bioinformatics at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. Photo: Jane Barlow
11. Infected by SARS-CoV-2
An image created with a confocal microscope shows cell nuclei (blue) being infected by SARS-CoV-2 (red areas), the virus which causes COVID-19 Photo: Jane Barlow