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26 November 2025

Understanding Marek’s Disease virus: sampling feathers to protect Indonesian poultry farming

Pirbright researcher Dr Steve Fiddaman , Avian Genetics , is collaborating with the University of Oxford ’s Professor Adrian Smith on a British Council project in Indonesia. Its objectives: to better understand chicken genetic and immune diversity across Indonesian islands, and to identify novel…

20 October 2025

Pirbright contributes £50m a year to UK economy

A new report highlights how The Pirbright Institute contributes £50m a year to the UK economy. Commissioned by Pirbright and carried out by public policy analysts SQW, the evaluation shows this equates to a Gross Value Added (GVA) economic impact of £471m over the past decade. The Institute is a…

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CRISPR chicken cell study boosts potential for vaccine development

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have created gene-edited chicken cells that produce significantly higher yields of influenza A virus and Newcastle disease virus (NDV). Poultry vaccines are the mainstay of disease prevention in the global poultry production industry, worth an estimated $420…