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EUROIMMUN anti-SARS-CoV-2 S1 curve ELISA received FDA Emergency Use Authorization
On Oct. 5, 2021, PerkinElmer announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had provided Emergency Use Authorization…
Johnson & Johnson submitted EUA amendment to FDA to support booster of single-shot COVID-19 vaccine
On Oct. 5, 2021, Johnson & Johnson announced it had submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug…
Vaccination linked reduction of over a quarter million COVID-19 cases, 100,000 hospitalizations, and 39,000 deaths among seniors
On Oct. 5, 2021, a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showed…
Biotechnology | NIH | Oncology | Therapeutics
the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center received NCI designated cancer center renewal
On Oct. 4, 2021, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center announced it had successfully renewed its National…
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian ‘for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch’
On Oct. 4, 2021, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to David Julius and Ardem…
US Department of Defense announced mandatory coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination of civilian employees
On Oct. 4, 2021, the the Secretary of Defense directed the mandatory vaccination of Service members against the…
Pfizer and BioNTech received CHMP positive opinion for COVID-19 vaccine booster in the European Union
On Oct. 4, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)…
Dynavax and U.S. Department of Defense announced collaboration to develop adjuvanted plague vaccine
On Oct. 4, 2021, Dynavax Technologies and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced Dynavax had executed an…
World’s oldest evidence for the earliest small-scale plant cultivation was discovered
World’s oldest evidence dating to 23000 BCE for the earliest small-scale plant cultivation was discovered by Dani Nadel…
ACON’s Flowflexﾙ COVID-19 home test received FDA EUA
On Oct. 4, 2021, ACON Laboratories announced that its Flowflexﾙ COVID-19 Antigen Home Test had been authorized for…
Farmers in China, Egypt and Sumeria began using fermentation
Around 8000 BCE, farmers in China, Egypt and Sumeria began using fermentation to produce cheese and wine. One…
Egyptians used bleeding
A tomb illustration in Memphis, Egypt, depictded a patient being bled from the foot and neck. Though the…
Earliest physical trace of beer found at a site called Godin Tepe
The earliest physical trace of beer dates back to the late fourth millennium BC in present day Iran…
Earliest known evidence of cheese making found in Croatia, Poland and Switzerland
Earliest known evidence of cheese making was found in Croatia dated to 7200 BCE. Residues from sherds of…
Pigeons were domesticated
Archeological evidence points to human use of pigeons as a food source as early as 10,000 years ago…
The Torah offered instructions for isolating lepers
The Torah offered instructions for isolating lepers, the first published guidance for health confinement occurred around 400-600 BCE.
Phoenicians disseminated the olive throughout the Greek isles
In the 16th century BCE the Phoenicians started disseminating the olive throughout the Greek isles, later introducing it…
Babylonian Code of Hammurabi prescribed regulations for date palm orchards
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1754 BCE), one of the oldest legal texts in the world, prescribes…
The Council of Lyons in Lyon, France restricted lepers from pubic association
In 583 BCE, the Council of Lyons in Lyon, France restricted lepers from freely associating with healthy persons.
Chinese healers created the first antibiotic to treat boils
Around 600 BCE, Chinese healers created the first antibiotic – moldy soybean curds – to treat boils.
Chinese growers used powdered chrysanthemum (pyrethrins) as the first insecticide
Around 100 BCE, Chinese growers used powdered chrysanthemum (pyrethrins) as the first insecticide.
Hippocrates described mumps, diphtheria, epidemic jaundice, and other conditions
Around 500 BCE, Hippocrates, a pioneering physician in the history of Medicine, and considered as the principal author…
Animal Biosecurity and Agro-Defense Program launched at Auburn
On Oct. 2, 2021, the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine was announced as the home to the…
FDA approved Kiteﾒs Tecartusﾮ as first and only Car T for adults with Relapsed or Refractory B-cell ALL
On Oct. 1, 2021, Kite, a Gilead Company, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted approval…
Humanigen submitted all planned modules forpotential conditional Marketing Authorization from UKﾒs MHRA
On Oct. 1, 2021, Humanigen announced it had submitted all the planned modules as well as a risk…
Labcorp received EUA for at home collection kit for combined COVID-19 and flu detection
On Oct. 1, 2021, LabCorp announced that it had received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food…
Merck and Ridgeback’s oral antiviral reduced risk of hospitalization or death for patients with COVID-19 in positive phase 3 study
On Oct. 1, 2021, Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that molnupiravir (MK-4482, EIDD-2801), an investigational oral antiviral medicine,…
Fifteen African countries hit 10% COVID-19 vaccination goal
On Sept. 30, 2021, the WHO announced that fifteen African countries – nearly a third of the continent’s…
Relief reported that collaboration partner announced a second favorable safety report for ZYESAMI(TM) in Patients with COVID-19
On Sept. 30, 2021, RELIEF THERAPEUTICS reported that the parent company of its U.S. collaboration partner, NRx Pharmaceuticals,…
U.S. FDA cleared Naeotom Alpha, worldﾒs first photon-counting computer tomograph
On Sept. 30 2021, Siemens Healthineers announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510 (k) clearance of the…