Detection of the European 'field' strain of bluetongue virus serotype 6 by real-time RT-PCR

Recently, scientists from The Pirbright Institute joined collaborators at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh to launch the next phase of the Livestock Antibody Hub, following a second five-year funding award from the Gates Foundation. Building on the success of the original programme, the renewed…

The Pirbright Institute has launched a specialist training programme to help engineers, technical professionals and biosafety specialists develop the engineering knowledge needed to support safe biological containment. High-containment laboratories depend on carefully designed engineering…

A scientist at The Pirbright Institute who contributed to a recent breakthrough in poxvirus research says the findings open new avenues for research. They could help scientists investigate how poxviruses establish infection after entering a cell and how that process can be blocked. Miguel Hernandez…