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By T. Chakraborty, Ph.D. Pharma giant Novartis is spending $69 million upfront to acquire two experimental drugs (MP0420 and MP0423) from Molecular Partners (MP) for combatting COVID-19. The drugs which …
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By Tyler Chen As the only influenza vaccine manufacturer with both EU GMP and US FDA certification in Asia and the only PIC/S GMP manufacturer of human vaccines in Taiwan, …
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By T. Chakraborty, Ph.D. & Rajaneesh K. Gopinath, Ph.D. On October 22nd, Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that it had entered into an arrangement with Roche for the exclusive rights to …
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By Daniel Ojeda, Ph.D. On October 22nd, Remdesivir (Veklury) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat patients with COVID-19. The approval comes days after the …
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By T. Chakraborty, Ph.D. In the last couple of decades, genome editing techniques have revolutionized various aspects of biological research. With improvements in technology over time, the scientific community is …
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By Tyler Chen On October 12th, Taiwan’s TTY Biopharm Company Limited received the authorization for delivering COVID-19 vaccines produced by BioNTech. Around 30 million vaccines will be delivered to Taiwan, …
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By Rajaneesh K. Gopinath, Ph.D. China-based Sinovac Biotech may initiate a Phase 3 clinical trial of its inactivated COVID-19 vaccine, CoronaVac, in the Philippines as early as next month. Philippine …
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By Sahana Shankar, Ph.D. Candidate It is now common knowledge that the Spike protein (S) on the surface of SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for host entry, a step that the virus …
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By Sangeeta Chakraborty, Ph.D. Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly’s leading antibody treatment for coronavirus, currently in three major clinical trials, recently came under the scrutiny of government health officials who asked the …
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By Ruchi Jhonsa, Ph.D. In a statement, late night on 12th October, Johnson and Johnson said it had paused all the dosing in Phase 3 clinical trial of its experimental …
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