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Pigs are a more effective model than mice for respiratory disease research

A new collaborative study with the Pirbright Institute on the porcine respiratory system, has shown that pigs are a valuable intermediate model between mice and humans for studying influenza, and other respiratory diseases affecting humans. The pig immune system presents…

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Collaboration & commercialisation

The Pirbright Institute develops reagents, tools and new techniques for diagnosing viral diseases and for species specific research. This important work is done in-house, in collaboration with other research institutes, and via public-private partnerships. This means…

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Science Strategy

The Pirbright Institute’s mission is to be the world's leading innovative centre for preventing and controlling viral diseases of livestock.

Genetically defined lines of animals

Infectious disease models in the target natural hosts are excellent tools to understand the biological features of host-pathogen interactions that are essential for developing improved control strategies. Moreover, the use of these models in genetically defined, inbred…

Contract research

The Pirbright Institute is a world leading centre of excellence for research and surveillance of viral diseases of livestock and those that spread from animals to humans. To that end we have extensive facilities for performing studies with the primary host animals, i.e…

Arthropod supplies

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