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15 November 2024

Pirbright welcomes two successful Doctoral Landscape Awards in life and environmental sciences

The Pirbright Institute is celebrating two major doctoral training initiatives funded by the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), each offering unique opportunities for the next generation of scientists. These programmes…

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14 November 2024

Nurturing emerging leaders in science

Two talented Pirbright researchers have been awarded with Strategic Career Development Awards (SCDAs) to advance their research and career trajectories. Dr Rory Fortes de Brito, a Senior Postdoctoral researcher in the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) Immunology group and Dr Lidia…

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Pirbright scientists investigate pig coronavirus infection to understand COVID-19 in humans

Researchers at Pirbright have developed a pig respiratory coronavirus (PRCV) model which will help to understand how coronaviruses cause disease and how the immune system responds to them. Human coronaviruses such as Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS…

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22 December 2021

Clues about coronavirus replication in host cells uncovered by Pirbright scientists

More clues about coronavirus replication in humans and animals have been uncovered by researchers at Pirbright. This research fills in important knowledge gaps that could help to control disease caused by a range of coronaviruses in the future. When we think of coronaviruses, we think of SARS-CoV-2…

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08 January 2021

Pirbright study shows how SARS-CoV-2 could have adapted from bats to humans and which other animals it could infect

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, is thought to have originated in bats, but how it jumped hosts to infect humans is unclear, as is the potential for the virus to infect other animal species. Researchers from The Pirbright Institute have…

Beaudette infection in primary chicken kidney cell cultures. They have been labelled anti-E (red) and anti-IBV (green) and the nuclei are labelled blue with DAPI.

01 September 2020

Increasing infectious bronchitis virus vaccine heat resilience could improve performance, Pirbright scientists reveal

Two recent studies from The Pirbright Institute and the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute show that two vaccines against specific strains of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) do not offer complete protection against a third strain, and that this may be partly down to the temperature range…

Merged cells following co-expression of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein and human ACE2 receptors.

SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to enter animal cells

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have shown that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is able to enter cells using the receptors of multiple mammalian species. The broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 confirms the potential risk…

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV)

Infectious bronchitis virus shuts down cell stress signals, Pirbright study shows

A new study from scientists at The Pirbright Institute and collaborators at the University of Surrey provides evidence that infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) can regulate the signals involved in the stress response, which would otherwise prevent a virus from making new copies of itself. Their…

infectious bronchitis virus infecting cells

24 January 2020

Pirbright’s livestock coronavirus research – your questions answered

The Pirbright Institute is aware that misinformation regarding the Institute and its research is circulating on social media following an outbreak of a new (novel) coronavirus that infects humans in Wuhan, China. These are the facts regarding our coronavirus research and funding. The Pirbright…

10 December 2019

Pirbright study uncovers replication sites of emerging pig disease

A recent study carried out at The Pirbright Institute has uncovered the sites within the cell where porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) makes new copies of itself during replication. Using electron microscopy, Pirbright scientists demonstrated that the virus creates replication organelles that are…