New insights into our immune responses could pave the way for innovative treatments and vaccines.
Research by Pirbright scientists, as part of an international collaboration, has informed a new paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The study shows an important section of our immune system involving the molecule MR1 and MAIT cells is evolutionarily conserved in multiple species.
The former Director of the Animal Virus Research Institute at Pirbright, Professor Brian Wilfred John Mahy, BSc, PhD, MA, DSc, has died at the age of 87.
After gaining his PhD in 1963 at the University of Southampton, Brian started his career at the University of London as a research biologist.
From 1965 to 1983, Brian worked in the Department of Pathology at Cambridge University, where he established a strong research programme on influenza and paramyxovirus and became Head of the Division of Virology in 1979.
A study has shown how pasteurisation temperatures, if applied for industry standard times, effectively inactivate H5N1 flu viruses in cows’ milk and render it safe to consume.
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