Oxford study demonstrates AstraZeneca successful against Brazil variant, source says Kumar Jeetendra | March 7, 2021 Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford suggests that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC is successful against the P1, or Brazilian, variant, a source with knowledge of the study told Reuters on Friday. The data suggests that the vaccine won’t need to be modified so as to protect against …
Japan supercomputer shows multiplying masks offers little assistance forestalling viral spread Kumar Jeetendra | March 7, 2021 Japanese supercomputer simulations revealed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking viral spread compared with a single properly fitted mask. The findings in part contradict recent recommendations from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that two masks were better than one at reducing a person’s vulnerability to the coronavirus. Using …
FDA issues emergency use approval for T-Detect COVID Test Kumar Jeetendra | March 7, 2021 Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its T-Detect COVID Exam developed by Adaptive Biotechnologies. The T-Detect COVID Evaluation is a next generation sequencing established (NGS) test to assist in identifying people with an adaptive T cell immune response to SARS-CoV-2, indicating recent or prior infection with SARS-CoV-2. …
Diphtheria is developing to get antibiotic-resistant safe and could prompt vaccine escape Kumar Jeetendra | March 8, 2021 Diphtheria – a comparatively easily-preventable infection – is evolving to become immune to a range of types of antibiotics and in the future could lead to vaccine escape, warn an international group of researchers in the UK and India. The researchers, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, say that the impact of COVID-19 …
Natco Pharma rises after USFDA gesture for cancer treatment drug Kumar Jeetendra | March 8, 2021 Natco Pharma jumped 6.2% to Rs 884.35 after the company received final approval for everolimus tablets in the US market. Natco Pharma announced that its marketing partner, Breckenridge Pharmaceutical Inc. (BPI), has received final approval for its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for everolimus tablets (a generic version of Afinitor) from the US Food and …
Cytel’s East Bayes® Broadens and Simplifies Access to Complex Bayesian Clinical Trial Designs Kumar Jeetendra | March 8, 2021 Waltham, MA – March 8, 2021 – Cytel Inc. has launched East Bayes® , an enhanced web-based extension of the East® platform that enables adoption of the most computationally intensive Bayesian clinical trial designs – without the need for powerful on-site computers. The new launch further expands East’s arsenal of Bayesian trial designs by providing …
Pathios Therapeutics boosted by award of significant Innovate UK funding Kumar Jeetendra | March 8, 2021 OXFORD, UK – 8 March 2021 – Life Science Newswire – Pathios Therapeutics Limited (“Pathios”), an innovative biotech company focused on the development of first-in-class therapies for cancer, today announced that it has been awarded £350K (approximately US$475K) in the form a Smart Grant from Innovate UK, the UK Government’s innovation agency, to accelerate their …
Cytiva and Longitude (a Financial Times company) reveal five major challenges for the industry in new Global Biopharma Resilience Index Kumar Jeetendra | March 8, 2021 Global life sciences leader Cytiva, along with the Financial Times’ research arm Longitude, have compiled a global index, ranking the ability of the biopharma industry to respond to five major challenges; in supply chain, talent, research and development, manufacturing, and government policy and regulation. Respondents answered questions on a scale of 1 to 10 in …
108Labs Launches Colostrupedics™ Whole-Human Infant Formula with Secretory Antibodies Kumar Jeetendra | March 8, 2021 Research Triangle Park, NC – March 8, 2021 – Life Science Newswire – Today, 108Labs announces the discovery of novel secretory antibody biosynthesis in the development of Colostrupedics™ whole-human infant formula, the first animal-free infant formula exclusively comprising cell-cultured human milk molecules derived from human mammary cell agriculture and formulated with broadly-neutralizing human secretory antibodies. …
Completely immunized individuals can gather without masks inside, should in any case avoid travel, says US Kumar Jeetendra | March 9, 2021 People who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 can fulfill without masks inside in small groups with others that have been inoculated but should prevent non-essential traveling and continue to wear face-coverings in public, the Biden administration said on Monday. In a long-awaited update of its guidance for behaviors to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, …
First smart speaker for contactless observing of both reguilar and unpredictable heartbeats Kumar Jeetendra | March 9, 2021 Wise speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have proven adept at monitoring certain health care issues at home. By way of instance, researchers at the University of Washington have shown that these devices can detect cardiac arrests or track babies breathing. But what about monitoring something even smaller: the moment motion of individual …
UMD receives grant to explore nettle as a functional food for improving health Kumar Jeetendra | March 9, 2021 Obesity, diabetes, and overall immune system health are problems that are all top-of-mind at the moment, particularly during the pandemic. To analyze how your diet can help prevent problems with these chronic diseases, the University of Maryland (UMD) was recently awarded a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and …
