Ashley Gray

Studies carried out by The Pirbright Institute and the University of Oxford have shown that Oxford’s new potential vaccine against COVID-19, named RBD-SpyVLP, produces a strong antibody response in mice and pigs, providing vital information for the further development of the vaccine. Although this…

Work carried out by scientists at The Pirbright Institute has revealed that differences in virulence between strains of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) may be partly down to changes in a viral protein called VP4. Their findings could help us to understand why very virulent (vv) strains cause…

Scientists from The Pirbright Institute have created a laboratory procedure which allows the response of chicken immune cells to infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) to be studied without infecting live chickens. IBDV, also known as Gumboro disease, can result in immunosuppression and death in…