Life Found in a Place Scientists Though Impossible
On Nov. 9, 2025, scientists from the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen reported they had…
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U.S. FDA approves Boehringer’s JASCAYD® (nerandomilast) tablets as first new treatment option for adults with IPF in over a decade
On Oct. 9, 2025, Boehringer Ingelheim’s JASCAYD® (nerandomilast) tablets has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug…
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Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Topline Data Demonstrating Robust Immune Response With Their LP.8.1-Adapted COVID-19 Vaccine 2025-2026 Formula
On Sept. 8, 2025, Pfizer and BioNTech announced positive topline results from an ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial…
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Pfizer and BioNTech’s COMIRNATY® Receives U.S. FDA Approval for Adults 65 and Older and Individuals Ages 5 through 64
On Aug. 27, 2025, Pfizer and BioNTech announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the…
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Skyhawk Therapeutics Announces Strategic Collaboration with Merck to Discover Novel RNA-Targeting Small Molecules for Neurological Disorders
On Aug. 18, 2025, Skyhawk Therapeutics announces a strategic research collaboration with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The collaboration…
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Bayer and Kumquat Biosciences enter global $1.3 Billion license and collaboration in precision oncology
On Aug. 12, 2025, Bayer and Kumquat Biosciences, a clinical-stage biotech company founded by pioneers of the KRAS…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Genomics | Oncology | Therapeutics
Jumping genes Alters the Genome
On May 19, 2025, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) announced they have have discovered how…
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BioNTech enters settlement with U.S. agency, UPenn over COVID vaccine royalties
On Dec. 27, 2024, BioNTech announced it had entered into two separate settlement agreements with the U.S. National…
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Biotechnology | Disease | HIV | Therapeutics | WHO
A seventh case of HIV cure reported
On Jul. 25, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced during the 25th International AIDS Conference, being held…
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Psittacosis reported in European region
On Mar. 5, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that in February 2024, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden…
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COVID-19 | FDA | Infectious Disease | Vaccine
Pfizer and BioNTech Receive Positive CHMP Opinion for Omicron XBB.1.5-adapted COVID-19 Vaccine in the European Union
On Aug. 30, 2023, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)…
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Genome analysis of revived 46,000-year-old roundworm from Siberian permafrost revealed a novel species
On Jul. 28, 2023, researchers from the Institute of Zoology at the University of Cologne, the Max Planck…
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Pfizer and BioNTech submitted for U.S. EUA of Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 booster in children under 5 years
On Mar. 1, 2023, BioNTech and Pfizer announced that they had submitted an application to the U.S. Food…
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Pfizer and BioNTech submit application to U.S. FDA for EUA of Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine in children under 5 years
On Dec. 5, 2022, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the companies had submitted an application to the U.S….
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Pfizer and BioNTech received positive CHMP opinion for Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for children in EU
On Nov. 10, 2022, Pfizer and BioNTech announced a booster dose of their Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine…
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Pfizer and BioNTech submitted application to U.S. FDA for EUA of Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine
On Aug. 22, 2022, Pfizer and BioNTech announced they had completed a submission to the U.S. Food and…
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CDC reported effectiveness of 2-Dose BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection among children
On Mar. 11, 2022, the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) mRNA COVID-19 vaccine was recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and…
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Pfizer and BioNTech received positive CHMP opinion for COMIRNATY in children 5 to under 12 years of age in the EU
On Nov. 25, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)…
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Real-world evidence confirmed high effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
On Mar. 11, 2021, the Israel Ministry of Health (MOH), Pfizer and BioNTech announced real-world evidence demonstrating dramatically…
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Moderna announced supply agreement to provide 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines
On Mar. 6, 2021, Moderna announced a supply agreement with the Government of The Philippines for 13 million doses…
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Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Rwanda
On Mar. 3, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech, in partnership with UNICEF, announced the arrival of the first doses…
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U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs began COVID-19 vaccinations
On Dec. 14, 2020, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that the New Orleans and Bedford,…
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Biotechnology | Chemistry | CRISPR | Genomics | Therapeutics
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020 awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”
On Oct. 7, 2020, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded to Drs. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer…
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GSK and CureVac announced strategic mRNA technology collaboration
On Jul. 21, 2020, GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac announced the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement for the research, development,…
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Pluristem and Charit’ University of Medicine Berlin joinly target potential treatment for respiratory and inflammatory Intratissue complications caused by COVID-19
On Mar. 12, 2020, Pluristem Therapeutics announced it a collaborative agreement with the BIH Center for Regenerative Therapy…
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German lab demonstrated feasibility to detect SARS-Coronavirus-2 using Hologic’s Panther Fusion System
On Mar. 5, 2020, Hologic announced a molecular assay for detecting the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (previously 2019-nCoV) on…
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The Tardigrade Genome was Sequenced, world first
On Nov. 25, 2015, scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced they had sequenced…
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Ernest Everett Just became the first American to be invited to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
In 1930, Ernest Everett Just, an African American biologist, became the first American to be invited to the…
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The term Alzheimer’s disease first used
On Jul. 15, 1910, the term Alzheimer’s disease was first used by German psychiatrist Dr. Emil Kraepelin to…
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German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer identified the first case of what is now known as Alzheimer’s disease
On Nov. 3, 1906, a clinical psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, Alois Alzheimer, reported “A peculiar severe disease process of…
