COVID-19 can kill heart muscle cells, interfere with contraction
On Mar. 1, 2021, a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provided evidence that…
No-fault compensation programme for COVID-19 vaccines was a world first
On Feb. 22, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chubb signed an agreement on behalf of the…
First-in-human clinical trial confirmed novel HIV vaccine approach
On Feb. 3, 2021, IAVI and Scripps Research announced a phase 1 clinical trial testing a novel vaccine…
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Rising protocol design complexity reported driving rapid growth in clinical trial data volume
On Jan. 12, 2021, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development reported that ever more complex…
Protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 could last eight months or more
On Jan. 6, 2021, the La Jolla Institute for Immunology announced data that suggest nearly all COVID-19 survivors…
Mayo Clinic research confirmed critical role of masks in preventing COVID-19 infection
On Nov. 24, 2020, published data from researchers at Mayo Clinic found that physical separation reduced the exposure…
Respiratory failure in COVID-19 usually not driven by cytokine storm
On Nov. 13, 2020, a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude…
Gates Foundation announced funds to develop COVID-19 vaccines and increase access in low-income countries
On Nov. 12, 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced new commitments totaling $70 million to global…
Single-cell study of Ebola highlighted virus’s lethal maneuvers
On Nov. 6, 2020, in a study published in Cell, the researchers identified antiviral defense genes that the…
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UC Berkeley launched pop-up lab to monitor Bay Area sewage for COVID-19
On Oct. 29, 2020, UC Berkeley announced that it had launched a new high-throughput pop-up lab – a…
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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…
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…
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…
Lilly announced supply of potential COVID-19 antibody therapy for low- and middle-income countries
On Oct. 8, 2020, Eli Lilly and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as part of the COVID-19…
Hologic Panther Platform and HIV-1 Quant assay used in ‘HIV Cure’ research
On Oct. 6, 2020, Hologic announced that two studies in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology demonstrated the utility…
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…
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 announced that a phase 1 trial…
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 announced agreements to make available, for low and middle-income countries,…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
UT Southwestern performed first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive organ transplant in Texas
On Sept. 2, 2020, UT Southwestern announced that it had performed the first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive organ transplant in Texas….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…