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Wearable sensors for COVID-19 mitigation

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers simulated several wearable sensor deployment scenarios to demonstrate the potential of digital contact tracing technology in mitigating the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

13 Feb 2022

What are taxpayers spending for those ‘free’ covid tests? The government won’t say.

The four free covid-19 rapid tests President Joe Biden promised in December for every American household have begun arriving in earnest in mailboxes and on doorsteps.

11 Feb 2022

Alkem signs license agreement with Harvard to develop, commercialize new technology for treating ischemic conditions

Alkem Laboratories Limited, an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, has signed a license agreement with Harvard University's Office of Technology Development enabling Alkem to develop and commercialize a novel technology that may help meet the dire need for effective treatment of diabetic neuropathy, foot ulcers, peripheral arterial disease (PAD), and other injuries caused by vascular disease.

11 Feb 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: FDA takes center stage

The FDA is still lacking a Senate-confirmed leader, but the agency is at the center of several major policy battles. Lawmakers this year must renew the bill that authorizes drug companies to pay "user fees," which enable the agency to hire additional reviewers to speed the approval of drugs.

10 Feb 2022

Wistar researchers takes a promising step in the direction of developing HIV vaccine

Nearly four decades after its discovery, HIV has killed 36.3 million people, with no vaccine in sight. However, a new study by researchers at The Wistar Institute, an international biomedical research leader in cancer, immunology, infectious disease, and vaccine development, takes a promising step in the direction of developing an HIV vaccine.

4 Feb 2022

Gene therapy may be a curative treatment option for patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia

A novel gene therapy promoted transfusion independence in more than 90 percent of adult and pediatric patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, according to a recent clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

3 Feb 2022

New approach to CAR T-cell therapy for B-cell cancers triples the targeted antigens on cancer cells

Researchers at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University have developed a novel approach to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for B-cell cancers that triples the targeted antigens on cancer cells – a "back up" approach that promises to greatly reduce the potential for antigen escape currently found in CAR T therapies that solely target CD19.

2 Feb 2022

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announces newest cohort of Fellows and Breakthrough Scientists

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has announced its newest cohort of Damon Runyon Fellows, 13 outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators.

29 Jan 2022

Aceto consolidates acquisition of six manufacturers, strengthening its unique hybrid model that provides major supply chain benefits to customers

Aceto, a leading global provider of specialty materials for life sciences and advanced technology end markets, today reported it has consolidated and integrated its six manufacturing-related acquisitions to achieve a hybrid manufacturing/distribution model providing key benefits to its customers in high-growth end markets including pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, nutraceuticals, agriculture, cosmetics and specialty chemicals.

27 Jan 2022

French project takes an extra step in the development of nasal vaccine candidate against COVID-19

The development of a protein vaccine candidate for nasal administration has taken another step. Led by the BioMAP research team, from the Infectiology and Public Health (ISP) joint research unit run by INRAE and the Université de Tours, this project, supported by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, and accompanied by the ANRS | Maladies infectieuses émergentes, is moving up a gear.

27 Jan 2022

New, low-cost COVID-19 test could make high-performance testing more accessible

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new test for COVID-19 that combines the speed of over-the-counter antigen tests with the accuracy of PCR tests that are processed in medical labs and hospitals.

24 Jan 2022

Researchers develop a computational approach to identify genomic safe harbors for therapeutic genes

Many future gene and cell therapies to treat diseases like cancer, rare genetic and other conditions could be enhanced in their efficacy, persistence, and predictability by so-called "genomic safe harbors (GSHs)."

24 Jan 2022

New technology for efficient diagnosis of dizziness problems

Patients with dizziness problems can now get better diagnosis in a simple and painless way.

24 Jan 2022

New COVID-19 vaccine promises vaccine equity because it has no patents

Corbevax, a new vaccine against COVID-19, may have better success as a candidate for vaccine equity because it carries no patents, relies on long-established recombinant technology for manufacture and has the support of the US and Indian governments, its makers and health experts say.

21 Jan 2022

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Further Reading

Wearable sensors for COVID-19 mitigation

What are taxpayers spending for those ‘free’ covid tests? The government won’t say.

Alkem signs license agreement with Harvard to develop, commercialize new technology for treating ischemic conditions

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: FDA takes center stage

Wistar researchers takes a promising step in the direction of developing HIV vaccine

Gene therapy may be a curative treatment option for patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia

New approach to CAR T-cell therapy for B-cell cancers triples the targeted antigens on cancer cells

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announces newest cohort of Fellows and Breakthrough Scientists

Aceto consolidates acquisition of six manufacturers, strengthening its unique hybrid model that provides major supply chain benefits to customers

French project takes an extra step in the development of nasal vaccine candidate against COVID-19

New, low-cost COVID-19 test could make high-performance testing more accessible

Researchers develop a computational approach to identify genomic safe harbors for therapeutic genes

New technology for efficient diagnosis of dizziness problems

New COVID-19 vaccine promises vaccine equity because it has no patents

New production method developed to freeze-dry COVID-19 vaccines

Prospective of graphene and graphene-based derivatives to combat SARS-CoV-2 infection

The latest advancements in polymer-based nanotechnology approaches used to fight against SARS-CoV-2

UC engineers develop new collision-avoidance system

Rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 have low overall rate of false-positive results

Nanovaccines and their immunomodulatory effect against human viruses

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