The USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture supports NoroCORE, a multidisciplinary research collaborative of 30 researchers from 25 universities who are joining forces to understand and control food borne virus risks.
Yesterday, Science Magazine published a breakthrough in our understanding of norovirus, 20 years in the making. For the first time, scientists have succeeded in growing norovirus in laboratory cultures of human intestinal epithelial cells. This represents a major step forward in the study of human gastroenteritis viruses, because it establishes a system in which a number of norovirus strains can be grown, allowing researchers to explore and develop procedures to prevent and treat infection and better understand norovirus biology.
Source: National Institute of Food and Agriculture