UC Berkeley launched pop-up lab to monitor Bay Area sewage for COVID-19
On Oct. 29, 2020, the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) announced that it had launched a new…
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Agriculture | Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | CMO | CRO | Non-Profit Research | Pharmaceutical | Therapeutics | U.S. Congress | Vaccine
U.S. Department of Defense approved $87 million for newest bioindustrial manufacturing innovation institute
On Oct. 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense announced an $87 million, seven-year award to the BioIndustrial…
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RNA ‘ticker tape’ records gene activity over time
On Oct. 19, 2020, researchers at MIT, Harvard, and the Broad Institute of MIT announced they had developed…
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Fred Hutch completed move-in of Lake Union Steam Plant
On Nov. 9, 2020, after more than two years of reconstruction efforts, scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer…
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Racial differences in Alzheimer’s research focus of $15 million grant
On Oct. 12, 2020, the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced a $14.6 million grant…
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Lilly announced supply of potential COVID-19 antibody therapy for low- and middle-income countries
On Oct. 8, 2020, Eli Lilly and Incyte shared sharing additional data showing baricitinib in combination with remdesivir…
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NIH supported 85 new grants featuring high-risk, high-reward research
On Oct. 6, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it had awarded 85 grants through its…
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Yale PET Center received $102 million BRAIN Initiative grant to build new scanner
On Oct. 2, 2020, Yale scientists will build the next-generation human brain PET scanner, the NeuroeXplorer (NX), to…
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UConn funded five COVID-19 research projects, announced additional funding
On Oct. 2, 2020, the Uconn Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) announced a new internal…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Genomics | Infectious Disease | Non-Profit Research | Prehistory | Therapeutics | Vaccine
Neandertal gene variant increases risk of severe Covid-19
On Sept. 30, 2020, researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
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NIH funded first nationwide network to study rare forms of diabetes
On Sept. 30, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced funding of a nationwide study to discover…
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Investigational COVID-19 vaccine well tolerated and generated iImmune response in older adults
On Sept. 29, 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced that a phase 1…
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Global partnership made available 120 million affordable, quality COVID-19 rapid tests for low- and middle-income countries
On Sept. 28, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced agreements to make available, for low and middle-income…
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Y chromosomes of Neandertals and Denisovans was sequenced
On Sept. 24, 2020, an international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in…
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Yale designated labs in three states to provide SalivaDirect COVID-19 test
On Sept. 24, 2020, Yale University announced it had designated three independent laboratories to perform the university-developed SalivaDirect…
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FDA launched the Digital Health Center of Excellence
On Sept. 22, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the launch of the Digital Health Center…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Influenza | Non-Profit Research | Vaccine
Flu may increase the spread of Covid-19
On Sept. 14, 2020, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin and the Institut…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Infectious Disease | Life Science History | Medicine | Non-Profit Research | Stem Cell | Therapeutics
California’s Stem Cell Agency and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative partnered to create COVID-19 database
On Sept. 8, 2020, a new collaboration between the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the Chan…
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UT Southwestern researchers showed how mutations in DNA packaging machines cause cancer
On Sept. 7, 2020, research from the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) determined how…
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Virginia Tech researchers began testing campus wastewater for COVID-19
On Sept. 3, 2020, a team of Virginia Tech researchers announced that they will begin testing wastewater at…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | HIV | Infectious Disease | Non-Profit Research | Organ Transplant | Therapeutics
UT Southwestern performed first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive organ transplant in Texas
On Sept. 2, 2020, less than three weeks after getting on an organ transplant list for HIV-positive patients,…
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NIH established Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases
On Aug. 27, 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes…
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Rapid diagnostic detected Lassa and Ebola in real-time
On Aug. 26, 2020, researchers announced an inexpensive, sensitive, CRISPR-based tests diagnose two deadly viruses in settings with…
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How SARS-CoV-2 spread across greater Boston during pandemic’s first wave
On Aug. 25, 2020, data from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts…
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La Jolla Institute for Immunology awarded $6.4 million for international efforts to beat COVID-19
On Aug. 20, 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes…
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Sorrento announced FDA IND filing for COVI-GUARD neutralizing and high potency antibody against SARS-CoV-2
On Aug. 19, 2020, Sorrento announced that it had filed an investigational new drug application (IND) for COVI-GUARD…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Non-Profit Research | Therapeutics | Vaccine
Spike protein of the new corona virus is more flexible than expected
On Aug. 18, 2020, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, the Paul Ehrlich Institute, the European…
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NIH-supported research demonstrates how genetic variations cause eczema
On Aug. 14, 2020, research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) delineated how two relatively common…
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Thermo Fisher Scientific supported COVID-19 testing at historically black colleges and universities seeking a safe return to campus
On Aug. 12, 2020, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced it had committed to supporting the efforts of historically black…
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Yale researchers part of New Nation-Wide NSF-funded Quantum Center
On Aug. 4, 2020, Yale University announced it was among the core partners of the new Center for…
