New research findings correlate with clinical observations of more fetal abnormalities and other Zika-related health problems in late versus early pregnancy Credit: Photo courtesy of USF...
Stirred to action by the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine stalwarts mobilize new formats, accelerate development, and scale up manufacturing. The post The Sleeping Giants of Vaccine Production...
Where conventional mass spec struggles with sequencing and the recognition of isoforms and post-translational modifications, new technologies may shine. The post Proteomics Begins to Emerge from...
A roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19 includes research on long-lasting...
The virus is evolving and new strains are more transmissible. Will the vaccines work against these new variants? How can researchers stay ahead of the virus's...
A long noncoding RNA regulates the expression of inflammatory genes and has a surprising effect on vulnerability to septic shock in mice Credit: Apple Vollmers When...
Johnson & Johnson said the company's single-dose vaccine was 66% effective in preventing Covid-19 in a large global trial against multiple variants, giving health officials another...
The data continues to come in on the various Covid-19 variants, and so far the news is pretty good, according to BioSpace.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Gilead. More effective antiviral treatments could be on the way after research from The University of Texas at Austin sheds new light...
With slow vaccine distribution and manufacturing, some people won't get the second dose on time. But does it matter?
You need a new shot every year because current flu vaccines provide limited and temporary protection. But researchers' new strategy could mean a one-and-done influenza vaccine...
The director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry is honored for his pioneering work in the field of gene transcription Credit: Irene Böttcher-Gajewski /...
The hormone acts as a barrier against SARS-CoV-2, blocking the expression of genes that encode proteins in cells serving as viral entry points, according to a...
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston have discovered what may...
Japan, EU Desperate For More COVID Jabs As Global Cases Top 100MM: Live Updates Summary: EU & AstraZeneca fight Japan agrees to make AZ vaccines Biden...
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04956 Rapid, sensitive diagnosis of COVID-19 is essential for early treatment, contact tracing and reducing viral spread. However, some...
A biologist explains what proteins do in viruses, how they interact with human cells, how the vaccine delivers mRNA into the cell and how antibodies protect...
A friend on an email group I’m on asked my friend and co-author Charley Hooper the following question about the COVID-19 vaccines: Are you sure that...
Credit: @Science China Press In the past 20 years, humans have suffered several serious epidemics from emerging viruses, such as SARS, swine flu, Ebola, MERS and...
Dr. Robert Ben of uOttawa’s Department of Chemistry leads multi-million-dollar initiative that thwarts ice growth to preserve samples for future use Credit: Courtesy University of Ottawa...
Vaccines that use harmless viruses as a delivery mechanism are vulnerable to being attacked by our immune system – but experimenting with how they are given...
Two pharmacists involved in COVID-19 vaccine preparation explain the role pharmacists are poised to play in expanding vaccine access.
Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine has been cleared by Australia’s health regulator to be used for immunization in individuals aged 16 years and older.
Gilead Sciences says its antiviral Veklury should be effective against the new, more contagious COVID-19 variants discovered in The post Gilead says Veklury should work against...
Vaccines that use harmless viruses as a delivery mechanism are vulnerable to being attacked by our immune system – but experimenting with how they are given...
The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is likely to protect against a more infectious variant of the virus discovered in Britain according to results...
UK biotech ConserV Bioscience has joined with California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop broad-spectrum coronavirus vaccines as The post ConserV Bioscience works on mutation-proof coronavirus...
Mammoth and IDbyDNA are among subcontractors under a four-year, up-to-$36.7 million CRISPR diagnostics contract inked by DoD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with prime contractor...
One Of The Greatest Economic Blunders In History Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, The U.S. economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. Only about...
NextCure has found its new CMO after the previous executive resigned last August. Han Myint, a biopharma and academia veteran of more than 20 years, joined...