Oxford University says COVID-19 patients experience symptoms months subsequent to contracting virus Kumar Jeetendra | October 19, 2020 Britain’s Oxford University said on Monday first findings from a study on the long term effect of COVID-19 has discovered a lot of patients discharged from hospitals still experience symptoms of breathlessness, fatigue, depression and anxiety two to three months after contracting the virus. The scientists detected abnormalities in many organs and believe persistent inflammation …
China’s Sinovac is sheltered, says Brazil’s leading research organization Kumar Jeetendra | October 20, 2020 São Paulo’s Butantan Institute, one of Brazil’s leading biomedical research centers, which is carrying out the Stage 3 tests, said the two-dose vaccine, called CoronaVac, was secure in a trial thus far involving 9,000 volunteers. But Butantan manager Dimas Covas said data on how effective the vaccine is will not be published until the trial …
US preliminary of AstraZeneca COVID-19 immunization may continue this week: Sources Kumar Jeetendra | October 21, 2020 AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine trial in the United States is expected to resume as early as this week following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration completed its review of a severe illness in a study participant, four sources told Reuters. AstraZeneca’s large, late-stage U.S. trial was on hold since Sept. 6, following a participant at …
SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Antigens for Diagnostic Kit Development Kumar Jeetendra | October 22, 2020 AMSBIO has further expanded its product range to help in the fight against COVID-19 with the introduction of a new range of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and antigens to aid development of new immunoassay diagnostic kits. While RT-PCR diagnostic kits has provided fast and sensitive COVID-19 case confirmation, the technique suffers from some inherent drawbacks that limit …
Atik Cameras Develops New Products for Use with qPCR Instruments for Accurate, Reliable COVID-19 Testing Kumar Jeetendra | October 22, 2020 NORWICH, UK – (October 22, 2020) – Life Science Newswire – In response to global demand for dependable technologies designed to optimize COVID-19 testing, Atik Cameras, specialist designer and manufacturer of advanced scientific imaging solutions, has developed the new VS255 and VS825 cameras for use specifically with quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) instruments — the …
GSK, Sanofi to make 200 million doses accessible for COVID-19 antibody union Kumar Jeetendra | October 28, 2020 French drugmaker Sanofi SA and Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline plan to create 200 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate accessible to the vaccine allocation program co-led by GAVI and the World Health Organization. The companies said on October 28 they have signed a statement of intent with vaccine alliance GAVI, which is coordinating the global plan …
WHO-drove COVID-19 medication plot copies down on antibodies, steroids and disregards remdesivir Kumar Jeetendra | November 6, 2020 A World Health Organization-led scheme to provide COVID-19 drugs to poor countries is gambling on experimental monoclonal antibody treatments and steroids but is shunning Gilead’s remdesivir blockbuster therapy, an internal document shows. The WHO draft document, seen by Reuters and dated October 30, states the priorities are to secure monoclonal antibodies in a tight market …
Singapore working on making sure about arrangement of COVID-19 vaccines Kumar Jeetendra | November 10, 2020 Singapore will work towards procuring a”portfolio” of all COVID-19 vaccines to appeal to various parts of the populace instead of relying upon a single vaccine,” Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said on November 10. Speaking during a digital media conference by the multi-ministry job force on COVID-19, Gan said that the application of a vaccine …
COVID-19 IgG Quantitative Antibody Blood Test of Abbott recieved CE mark Kumar Jeetendra | December 19, 2020 Abbott has received CE Mark for its new quantitative SARS-CoV-2 IgG (Immunoglobulin G) lab-based serology test. IgG antibody testing that gives a quantitative result (measuring the amount of antibodies) provides important insights to people as they recover from COVID-19 and help evaluate a person’s immune response to a vaccine. Countries around the world are preparing …
BD Announces Assay for Identification of COVID-19 Patients Kumar Jeetendra | February 3, 2021 EYSINS, Switzerland, February 03, 2021/BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the CE mark of BD Multitest™ 6-Color TBNK Reagent with BD Trucount™ Tubes with expanded clinical application to help clinicians identify COVID-19 patients at increased relative risk of intubation with mechanical ventilation (IMV) and mortality at …
Mark Copley -Chief Executive Officer at Copley Scientific: Interview with Microbioz India Kumar Jeetendra | February 25, 2021 Mark Copley graduated from the University of Bath, UK in 2000 with a Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering. For 8 years he was Technical Sales Manager and product specialist for Copley Scientific’s range of inhaler testing equipment, before becoming the Sales Director in 2009. He is now Chief Executive Officer for the company. Mark is …
Ordinary promoter vaccines are the future fighting with COVID-19 infection, top genome experts says Kumar Jeetendra | March 15, 2021 Standard booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain’s attempt to sequence the virus’s genomes told Reuters. The novel coronavirus, which has killed 2.65 million individuals globally since it emerged in China in late 2019, …
