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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…
New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’
Added: 4 Sep 2020
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19…
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…
Computational model could help translate drugs from animal studies to human
Added: 5 Aug 2020
About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's d…
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…
Advanced Engineering and Lab Innovations: visitors are in safe hands
Added: 31 Jul 2020
The UK Government has recently endorsed the reopening of conferences and exhibitions, releasing a s…
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 …
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…
Fighting E. coli with E. coli
Added: 7 Jul 2020
According to findings from a new gut-in-a-dish study published in mBio, Nissle, a strain of Escheri…
First volunteer receives new Imperial COVID-19 vaccine
Added: 26 Jun 2020
The first healthy volunteer has received a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers led by …
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…
Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing
Added: 15 Jun 2020
European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe c…
First adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine receives EU approval
Added: 15 Jun 2020
The European Commission has now given regulatory approval for the first adjuvanted quadrivalent inf…
Global alliance for collaborative digital health
Added: 10 Jun 2020
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation …
Dose controlled drug delivery via 3D printed electromagnetic capsule
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Doctors could soon be administering an entire course of treatment for life-threatening conditions w…
New MIT protein production protocol will speed up drug delivery
Added: 1 Jun 2020
MIT chemists have developed a protocol to rapidly produce protein chains up to 164 amino acids long…
DIY reagents for COVID-19 testing
Added: 20 May 2020
Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create s…
Why all newborns should receive BCG vaccine
Added: 7 May 2020
An international research team has identified the mechanism behind one of science's most enduring m…
Cyber warning issued for key healthcare organisations
Added: 6 May 2020
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a cyber security warning to healthcare organis…
