ETH Zurich Computer Scientists Create A ‘DNA search engine’
On Aug. 10, 2025, computer scientists at ETH Zurich announced they have developed a digital tool capable of…
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Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem
On Aug. 8, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | FDA | Infectious Disease | NIH | Vaccine
U.S. abandons mRNA vaccine development despite triumphs
On Aug. 8, 2025, the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it was winding down…
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Eliminating mosquitoes not enough to fight China’s chikungunya fever outbreak, experts say
On Aug. 8, 2025, experts in mosquito-borne infectious diseases are warning against excessive insect eradication campaigns as cities…
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Cambridge researchers play key role in evidence leading to approval of new treatment for hereditary blindness
On Aug. 7, 2025, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has today announced the approval…
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Novel immunologic surveillance study provides new insights into post-pandemic return of respiratory viruses
On Aug. 7, 2025, the first paper from a multi-year clinical research study has been published in The…
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Scripps Scientists build an “evolution engine” to rapidly reprogram proteins
On Aug. 7, 2025, research scientists at Scripps Research announced a new platform that enables fast, scalable protein…
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CareDx Announces Landmark KOAR Study Published in the American Journal of Transplantation
On Aug. 6, 2025, CareDx announced the publication of the Kidney Allograft Outcomes AlloSure Registry (KOAR) study in…
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Mars Partners with Pairwise to Accelerate Cacao Research Using CRISPR platform
On Aug. 6, Mars has licensed Pairwise’s Fulcrum® gene editing tools for cacao research and development. This licensing…
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals Announces U.S. FDA Approval of Modeyso™ (dordaviprone) as the First and Only Treatment for Recurrent H3 K27M-mutant Diffuse Midline Glioma
On Aug. 6, 2025, Jazz Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval for Modeyso™ (dordaviprone)…
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Washington Health Officials investigating possible locally acquired case of malaria
On Aug. 6, 2025, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) reported an East Pierce County, Washington woman who…
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New York City Health Department Provides Update on Community Cluster of Legionnaires’ Disease in Central Harlem
On Aug. 6, 2025, the New York City Health Department provided an update on the investigation into a…
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Scientists Achieve Megabase-Scale Precision Genome Editing in Eukaryotic Cells
On Aug. 5, 2025, a team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of…
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CDC issues warning as China fights chikungunya virus in Guangdong
On Aug. 5, 2025, U.S. health officials are warning travelers headed to southern China of an outbreak of…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Non-Profit Research | Therapeutics | Vaccine | Women's Health
Gates Foundation Announces Catalytic Funding to Spark New Era of Women-Centered Research and Innovation
On Aug. 4, 2025, The Gates Foundation announced a $2.5 billion commitment through 2030 to accelerate research and…
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UK Biobank celebrates completion of world’s largest human imaging study with landmark events
On Aug. 4, 2025, UK Biobank announced it had reached a historic milestone – completing 100,000 whole-body imaging…
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Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk
On Aug. 4, 2025, The Florida Department of Health said on Monday that there have been 21 cases…
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Mallinckrodt, Endo Complete Merger to Create Global, Scaled, Diversified Therapeutics Leader
Aug. 1, 2025, Mallinckrodt and Endo announced that they have completed their merger to create a global, scaled,…
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MIT spinout Tissium secured FDA marketing authorization of biopolymer platform for nerve repair
On Aug. 1, 2025, Tissium announced it has begun offering surgeons a new solution based on a biopolymer…
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Biotechnology | Disease | FDA | Therapeutics
FDA approves Alhemo® as once-daily prophylactic treatment to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes for adults and children 12 years of age and older with hemophilia A or B
On Jul. 31, 2025, Novo Nordisk announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Alhemo® (concizumab-mtci)…
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Researchers create ‘virtual scientists’ to solve complex biological problems
On Jul. 29, 2025, Stanford Medicine researchers announced the creation a team of virtual scientists backed by artificial…
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Biology | Biotechnology | Diagnostics | FDA | Imaging | Marine Science | Medical Device | Pharmaceutical
Horseshoe Crabs Break Free from Biomedical Testing
On Jul. 29, 2025, The Scientist reported that for 40 years, researchers relied on horseshoe crab blood to…
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Data show good flu vaccine efficacy in pregnant, nonpregnant women and older adults
On Jul. 29, 2025, two studies showed that influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) in the United States was similar…
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WHO urges action on hepatitis, announcing hepatitis D as carcinogenic
On Jul. 28, 2025, as we mark World Hepatitis Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on governments…
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Biotechnology | CMO | Medical Device | Medicine | Pharmaceutical | Vaccine
Simtra BioPharma Solutions Announces Strategic Purchase to Expand U.S. Manufacturing Capacity for Injectable Medicines
On Jul. 25, 2025, Simtra BioPharma announced the purchase from Cook Group of a 65-acre property (301 N….
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Pfizer and BioNTech Receive Positive CHMP Opinion for LP.8.1-adapted COVID-19 Vaccine in the European Union
On Jul. 25, 2025, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products…
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Wastewater Measures of SARS-CoV-2 Accurately Predict Frequency of Symptomatic Infections in the Community
On Jul. 24, 2025, a University of Minnesota study shows that widespread immunity through vaccination or natural infection…
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Study reveals a novel immune-based therapy that may be effective in hard-to-treat lung cancers
On Jul. 24, 2025, a team of researchers from TGen, part of City of Hope, and Baylor Scott…
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Agriculture | Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | COVID-19 | CRISPR | Diagnostics | Genomics | Infectious Disease | Materials | Medical Device | Stem Cell | Therapeutics | Vaccine
China approving innovative drugs at record pace as discovery momentum shifts from the West
On Jul. 24, 2025, The China Times reported that China is making inroads in the race for innovative…
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Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia
On Jul. 24, 2025, an analysis of studies incorporating data from almost 30 million people has highlighted the…
