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Ensuring 'fair and equitable' distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Added: 4 Sep 2020
When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce. The World H…

Submit your COVID-19 data to the global vaccine effort
Added: 4 Sep 2020
More than 73,000 users collaborate on a new online platform set up by the European Open Science Clo…

Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank
Added: 18 Aug 2020
Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply net…

Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014,…

First UK COVID-19 vaccine to be manufactured in Wales
Added: 3 Aug 2020
Wockhardt, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology major today announced that it has entered in…

UK vaccine capability enjoys a >£100M cash boost
Added: 24 Jul 2020
The UK is at the forefront of international efforts to research and develop a COVID-19 vaccine and …

UK-based in-depth study of early COVID-19 detection
Added: 24 Jul 2020
UK digital health and therapeutics company Huma is teaming up with the renowned Fenland Study resea…

Study delivers animal replacement method for vaccine testing
Added: 23 Jul 2020
Dutch, Bilthoven based, Intravacc, a global leader intranslational research and development of vira…

First US-statewide COVID-19 random sample study findings published
Added: 23 Jul 2020
The results of the first statewide random sample study in the United States to measure the spread o…

Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus
Added: 23 Jul 2020
Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus that causes COVID-19 can only be studied safely under hi…

Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025
Added: 25 Jun 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…

Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces
Added: 11 Jun 2020
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the d…

Widespread facemask use could shrink the 'R' number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevent…

A counterintuitive approach to treating Covid-19
Added: 4 May 2020
A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early sta…

Procarta awarded £7.4M for microbial treatment
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Biotechnology company Procarta Biosystems will receive up to £7.4 million to develop a new class of…

Ebola patients cured with mAb drugs
Added: 13 Aug 2019
Two monoclonal antibody drugs will be used to treat Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Co…

HIV virus eliminated with CRISPR and new antiretroviral therapy
Added: 4 Jul 2019
Replication-competent HIV-1 DNA – the virus responsible for AIDS – has been eliminated from the gen…

Protein key to malaria parasite’s lifecycle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2018
New research suggests that a regulator protein, AP2-G, may hold the key to finding new approaches t…

Nobel prize winning tech reveals herpes virus structure
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2018
Researchers at the University of Glasgow have used cryo-electron microscopy to reveal the detailed …

Bacteria used to block dengue and Zika
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2018
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have found a bacterial strain which blocks dengue and Zika …