A £1 MILLION grant has been awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Scottish Government to allow scientists from Moredun Research Institute near Edinburgh, working in partnership with colleagues from the Roslin Institute, to undertake investigations of the immune responses of sheep and cattle, vitally underpinning the development of vaccines in the future.
Effective vaccines are the most efficient way of preventing the transmission and spread of infectious diseases in cattle and sheep.
However, there are still many diseases for which no effective vaccine exists and the lack of knowledge of the immune systems of these animals is considered to be a major block to vaccine development.
