The World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (WRLFMD) marked 60 years of being the global centre of expertise in the diagnostics and surveillance of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) with a two-day symposium on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 November. The Pirbright Institute, home to the WRLFMD,...
Our Head of Entomology, Dr Simon Carpenter , suggests some creepy crawly alternatives to the usual Halloween spider clichés... It’s been a big few months for our friends from the order Araneae, or just plain spiders to the non-Arachnologists among you. We’ve had Billie Eilish tearing it up with...
Pirbright scientists are bringing together vector research communities to improve their capacity for fighting disease. The aptly named ‘ Gnatwork ’ is forging international connections between scientists that work on three insect groups (sandflies, blackflies and biting midges) through providing...
In new work funded by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) researchers at The Pirbright Institute and The Roslin Institute have published work investigate the role of the infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) spike (S) protein in generating protection through vaccination...
Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have conducted the first study to directly compare the ability of two peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccines to protect susceptible animals against wildtype viruses from any of the four genetic lineages of PPR virus. Through analysing the immune response of...
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