**Research Firsts Exhibition: Image and accompanying text by Joe Grove and the Unseen Hands Collaboration**
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Using machine learning to analyse thousands of virus sequences, we obtained our first view of the cell entry machinery of hepatitis C virus. Exciting and important for vaccine development! But are we aware of the stigma faced by people living with viruses like HCV and HIV? Do they know that their generously donated blood samples helped us with our findings?
The Unseen Hands project, a powerful collaboration with people living with blood-borne viruses, gave us an appreciation for the human and scientific links between our work and these communities. The artwork shown here, created in the ARC, reflects these connections.
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