Moderna and BioNTech, two rising stars in biotech, were in the limelight this year with their pioneering mRNA The post Moderna and BioNTech – who are...
All your questions about the new coronavirus variant, answered by a microbial genomics researcher.
The coronavirus vaccine was developed faster than any vaccine in history. It took just 332 days from the first sequencing of the virus genome to the...
Credit: Jason McLellan There is light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel. Several vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 are now in...
A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly endorsed emergency use of Moderna Inc.’s coronavirus vaccine, virtually assuring a second option...
The development of multiple vaccines against the virus that causes COVID-19 has been hailed as the breakthrough of 2020. But there were many more supporting discoveries...
Sex hormones, chromosomes contribute to a stronger immune response and better outcomes for female COVID-19 patients Credit: University of Alberta Female COVID-19 patients face less severe...
CNBC Transcript: Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks with CNBC ’s Meg Tirrell live during the CNBC Healthy Returns Livestream today and gives his predictions for coronavirus after...
Why The Number '3' May Make You Rethink The COVID Hysteria Tyler Durden Wed, 12/16/2020 - 13:52 Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Yesterday I promised...
Specimen preservation means researchers don't need to reinvent the wheel each time they ask a new question, making it critical for the advancement of science. But...
Episode four of Kantar Health’s Health Heroes podcast tackles pharma’s rare disease challenges, the role of patient registries The post Tay-Sachs and rare disease registries –...
Credit: Jonathan L. Dunnum LAWRENCE — When you imagine a visit to a natural history museum, the first thing that springs to mind could be dinosaur...
Researchers, headed by a team at McGill University, identified neurobiological signatures in the brains of lonely people. Their findings indicated that loneliness manifests as both variations...
The Great Reset is on everyone’s mind, whether everyone knows it or not. It is presaged by the measures undertaken by states across the world in...
Credit: BAT / KBP Investigational New Drug application approved by the FDA for COVID-19 candidate vaccine, allowing BAT to progress into a Phase I clinical trial...
The COVID-19 Data Is A "Travesty" Tyler Durden Wed, 12/16/2020 - 02:00 Via InsightHistory.com, Although people have tragically died from Covid-19, the way the Covid-19 death...
Synthetic DNA-encoded monoclonal antibodies make the recipient’s body the production plant Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA — (Dec. 15, 2020) — A team of scientists from...
The Austrian researchers are the first in the world to demonstrate ‘YeiN’, an enzyme that is a suitable biocatalyst for the production of C-nucleosides, the basic...
SARS-CoV-2 mutates all the time, creating new variants. That doesn't automatically mean it's getting more harmful or better at spreading.
A single-patient study conducted by British scientists found that Gilead’s remdesivir could be highly effective against Covid-19, raising questions about previous studies that found the antiviral...
With 2020 set to bring the curtain down on a biotech IPO boom unlike anything we’ve seen before, you have to wonder which companies are setting...
The pandemic is placing strain not just on doctors and nurses but the medical laboratory professionals who conduct the billions of medical tests behind the scenes.
Pfizer and German partner BioNTech announced that they will start distributing the first batches of their BNT162b2 vaccine in the US in coming days after the...
Alexion has routinely featured among lists of top biopharma takeover prospects in the last couple of years, and The post Alexion finally has a buyer –...
Credit: Dana Gray/WVU To address the challenges of COVID-19 testing shortages and lagging turnaround times, West Virginia University and the West Virginia Department of Health and...
Markets have been turning mostly up since the election, as investors have taken the measure of the macro environment and appear pleased. There is some expectation...
New technology is needed for our failing food systems; but anticipating trade-offs is crucial to making sure fixes do not create unmanageable new problems Credit: Neil...
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline said clinical trials of their Covid-19 vaccine showed an insufficient immune response in older people, delaying its launch to late 2021 and marking...
A mounting U.S. death toll has tempered enthusiasm about a coming Covid-19 vaccine with 9/11-like fatalities projected every day for the months ahead, even with a...
Initially traced to about 100 cases of Covid-19 that spread across the United States, the number of infections linked to a Biogen corporate conference held in...