A new gene editing tool has been successfully applied to the southern house mosquito by researchers at The Pirbright Institute. This paves the way for genetic control methods that could prevent the mosquito from spreading human and animal diseases. The female southern house mosquito ( Culex...
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate media reports, and African swine fever (ASF) occupies the farming trade publications, a third disease, unknown to many, is spreading at pace across the globe. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a devastating disease of cattle and water buffalo that has...
Today the British Society for Immunology (BSI) and the International Veterinary Vaccinology Network (IVVN) have published ' Securing our future: the value of veterinary vaccines '. The joint report lays out the current veterinary vaccinology landscape, identifies threats to the UK’s world-leading...
An international project led by scientists in the World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (WRLFMD) at The Pirbright Institute has tracked the evolution of FMD virus (FMDV) over nearly 20 years to reveal how different factors affect its spread across countries of Western and Southern...
An improved poultry influenza vaccine has been developed by researchers from The Pirbright Institute. The potential vaccine triggers a rapid immune response which protects chickens against signs of disease and reduces the level of virus that they could pass on, a key element to halting the spread...
Pirbright's longstanding expertise in viral diseases is helping us to provide vital services and information that will help to tackle the life changing pandemic caused by COVID-19.
Our Coronavirus Hub provides an overview of how the Institute is aiding the pandemic response, including Pirbright's COVID-19 research on vaccines, understanding how the virus works, and exploring diagnostic solutions, as well as the support we are providing to the UK diagnostic effort.
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