Credit: SCIGRAPHIX / S. Westermann SARS-CoV-2 infections pose a global threat to human health and a formidable research challenge. One of the most urgent tasks is...
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Novartis’ cholesterol drug inclisiran has hit a speed bump with the FDA, which has rejected the potential blockbuster The post FDA rejects Novartis’ cholesterol drug after...
Moderna Inc.’s coronavirus vaccine became the second to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, welcome news to a nation with...
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...
Study of individual particle degradation suggests a potential surge of COVID-19 infections in the winter Credit: Sharma et. al. (2020) Biochem Biophys Res Comms Winter is...
A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to endorse emergency use of Moderna Inc.’s coronavirus vaccine during a meeting...
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...
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Moderna looks odds on to claim emergency use authorisation from the FDA for its COVID-19 vaccine this week, The post FDA backs Moderna COVID-19 shot ahead...
"Talk To Your Twitter-Mob To Find Out If The COVID Vaccine Is Right For You..." Tyler Durden Tue, 12/15/2020 - 12:10 Authored by Simon Black via...
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...
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Hospitals in the US have started vaccinating their front-line staff against COVID-19, as deaths in the country crossed The post Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations start across the...
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...
The United States authorized the use of Pfizer Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine on Dec. 11, with the first inoculations expected within days, marking a turning point in...
Longenesis announces the first deployment of its flagship product Curator for real-time, privacy-preserving biomedical data identification, with National Research Programme in Latvia for COVID-19 research acceleration...
The new technology can accurately diagnose the infection in less than 20 minutes, with zero false positive and false negative Credit: Institute for Basic Science (IBS)...
By now, it appears that drug hunters have exploited just about every therapeutic angle having to do with RNA. Leveraging RNA as a therapy? Check. Making...
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Tuesday has been dubbed “V-day” in the UK, when the first doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine will be The post UK faces “V-Day” and largest ever...
China’s Sinovac has raised $515 million to increase its distribution and production capacity as clinical development of its The post Sinovac raises $515m to boost production...
5 Ways Americans Could Be "Encouraged" To Get A COVID Vaccine Tyler Durden Sat, 12/05/2020 - 14:00 Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog,...
Tested 'Positive' For COVID-19? Be Sure To Ask This Question Tyler Durden Sat, 12/05/2020 - 10:20 The lockdowns are based on surging “cases” which are based...
Credit: Daniel Fletcher and Melanie Ott Researchers have developed an assay that can detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in a nasal swab using a device attached...
Jennifer Doudna PhD, the UC Berkeley biochemist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier PhD, was the recent guest of honor for...
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours, researchers in the...