Infectious Disease Control

Novavax Announces Memorandum of Understanding to Explore Expansion of COVID-19 Vaccine Activities in South Korea

Novavax and SK bioscience reaffirm partnership during meeting with South Korean leaders GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced the signing of a non-...

2021-05-23 00:39 9143

Moderna and Samsung Biologics Announce Agreement for Fill-Finish Manufacturing of Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and INCHEON, South Korea, May 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, and Samsung Biologics (KRX: 207940.KS), a leading global CDMO providing a fully integrated end-to-end contract develop...

2021-05-23 00:00 8902

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Simultaneously Launches First Quantitative COVID-19 IgG Spike Antibody Test As Well As A Nucleocapsid Antibody Test to Help Differentiate Cause of Antibody Response

- Ortho is the only company that offers laboratories in the U.S. a quantitative test in combination with a nucleocapsid test - Both new antibody tests help health care teams differentiate the cause of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 - Ortho's new VITROS® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG Quantitative Antibody t...

2021-05-22 05:22 9475

CGTN:China makes new pledges to help developing countries defeat COVID-19

BEIJING, May 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- China on Friday announced several new measures to help developing countries tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping impacts, pledging to contribute$3 billion in the next three years and provide more vaccines.   Addressing the Global H...

2021-05-22 01:16 4335

World Health Organisation Declares Dominica as Latest Country to Eliminate Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission

LONDON, May 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/-- The Commonwealth of Dominica has received certification from the World Health Organisation for eliminating mother-to-child HIV and syphilis transmission after witnessing no recorded cases over the last four years.Dominica is the latest Caribbean country to ach...

2021-05-21 10:00 2411

Island Pharmaceuticals granted key patent for ISLA-101 in the United States

* Island's lead asset, ISLA-101 granted key patent from United Stated Patent & Trademark Office * Patent underpins Island's drug repurposing strategy to rapidly and efficiently develop antiviral therapies with a key focus being mosquito borne viral diseases, such as dengue fever. * Around 3...

2021-05-19 19:30 1896

Eurofins Discovery Launches Human Immune Models for COVID-19 New Therapeutic Discovery or Repurposing

ST. CHARLES, Mo., May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Eurofins Discovery, the market leader in pharmacology services and drug discovery products with over forty years providing solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, announces the launch of new services in support of clients working to ad...

2021-05-18 21:00 1769

Clover Announces Positive Preclinical Data for Second-Generation Protein-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Demonstrating Broad Neutralization Against Variants of Concern

* The publication is available as a pre-print on bioRxiv * Preclinical data demonstrates that a modified B.1.351 S-Trimer vaccine candidate induces broad neutralization against both the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and variants of concern (VoC) including the South African variant * A single bo...

2021-05-18 11:50 2604

AI-for-COVID19: Predictive Diagnostics Platform Available to Global Scientific Community

The "AIforCOVID Imaging Archive" platform enables the sharing of radiographic images from COVID-19 patients and development of leading-edge Artificial Intelligence-based methods for predicting clinical developments of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. The platform has been promoted and implement...

2021-05-18 04:44 1433

EpiVax Identifies T cell Epitopes critical to robust T cell immune response in SARS-CoV-2 , Results Published in NPJ Vaccines

PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EpiVax, Inc. ("EpiVax") announces the publication"Highly conserved, non-human-like, and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes for COVID-19 vaccine design and validation" in NPJ Vaccines. This research identifies peptide epitopes associated with T...

2021-05-17 20:54 1879

The Kare Lab Launches Travel Protect Kit as Travel under New Normal Resumes in 2021

HONG KONG, May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kare Lab, a leading supplier in providing medical-grade protective gears to leading institutes and hospitals across the APAC, has launched a new Travel Protect Kit for worldwide travelers as vaccines are being rolled out and the world looks to resume tr...

2021-05-17 13:26 2625

CGTN: True Colors Are shown in Crisis

BEIJING, May 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Crises are an unavoidable part of human history. And the response to a crisis can make a difference in a country's development. CGTN:True colors are shown in crisis On May 12, 2008,...

2021-05-15 00:29 4614

China's Leading Big Data Expo to Start Online Show on May 20

GUIYANG, China, May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 2021 China International Big Data Industry Expo (CIBDIE), the country's leading big data expo, will be held in southwestChina's Guiyang City from May 26 to 28. 2021 China International Big Da...

2021-05-14 13:56 2142

Terumo Donates Additional USD 1 Million to Support the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO

TOKYO, May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world joins together to fight the ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, Terumo Corporation (TSE: 4543) has announced that the Terumo Group companies will collectively donateUSD 1 million in cash to support the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund fo...

2021-05-14 09:05 6047

Initiated clinical trial with novel nasal spray codenamed APR-AOS2020 in patients with mild COVID-19

Product recently cleared in EU as Class III medical device BALERNA, Switzerland, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- APR Applied Pharma Research s.a. (APR), a leader in the development of pharmaceutical drug delivery technologies and systems and innovative products derived thereof, today announced the ...

2021-05-13 00:48 2450

Zymo Research Releases Open-Source Bioinformatics Pipeline for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Detection in Wastewater

IRVINE, Calif., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Zymo Research has released the VirSieve™ Bioinformatics Pipeline source code to the environmental microbiology community to promote global collaboration and support for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater. VirSieve™ is an automated compu...

2021-05-11 17:05 2254

Seegene's Germany subsidiary supports the back-to-school initiative with its COVID-19 tests

* SEEGENE BACKS GERMANY IN ITS EFFORT TO RETURN TO NORMALCY * GERMAN SUBSIDIARY TO SUPPLY COVID-19 DIAGNOSTIC TESTS ENOUGH TO TEST 734,000 PUPILS SEOUL, South Korea, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Seegene Inc. (KQ 096530), a leading molecular diagnostics firm said its German subsidiary, Seegene...

2021-05-11 10:11 1536

Novavax Announces Positive Preclinical Data for Combination Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

- Manuscript highlights development of robust responses to both influenza and COVID-19 and protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus - Data shared via preprint server for biology, bioRxiv, ahead of publication GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechn...

2021-05-10 21:55 3842

Hong Kong Government Endorses INDICAID® in Visitation Resumption Arrangements

HONG KONG, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- COVID-19 rapid antigen test (RAT) INDICAID®, developed by Hong Kong biotechnology start-up PHASE Scientific International Limited (PHASE), has been named by the government as one of the designated rapid tests when care homes resume visitation today. The end...

2021-05-10 09:36 3181

Aaseya Receives the Client Innovation Award for Social Responsibility from Pega

HYDERABAD, India, May 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Aaseya, Pega Gold Partner, received the Client Innovation Award for Social Responsibility from Pegasystems atPegaWorld iNspire 2021 . This prestigious award from Pega recognizes Aaseya for the excellence in deliv...

2021-05-08 01:47 3551
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