UK Trials Show Paxlovid speeds recovery, but doesn’t reduce hospitalization in vaccinated patients
On Apr. 23, 2026. two national trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine report Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir)…
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New Genetic Risk Score Better Predicts Diabetes, Obesity and Downstream Complications
On Mar. 16, 2026, investigators from Mass General Brigham announce they have built metabolic polygenic risk scores (PRS) for predicting…
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GSK’s RSV vaccine, Arexvy, approved in US for expanded age indication in adults aged 18–49 years at increased risk
On Mar. 13, 2026, GSK announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approved…
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EMA recommends Moderna’s combined mRNA vaccine for protecting older adults against COVID-19 and flu
On Feb. 27, 2026, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced it’s recommending marketing authorization for mCombriax, Moderna’s combined…
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Baby boy first child born in the UK after mother transplanted with a womb from deceased donor
On Feb. 24, 2026, Womb Transplant UK announced in an historic breakthrough, that a bouncing baby boy has…
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Statins do not cause the majority of side effects listed in package leaflets
On Feb. 6, 2026, a study led by researchers at Oxford Population Health reported that statins do not…
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Artificial Intelligence | Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Medical Device | Oncology | Quantum | Therapeutics
Oxford team engineer quantum-enabled proteins, opening a new frontier in biotechnology
On Jan. 21, 2026, in a world first, a research team led by the University of Oxford’s Department…
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Amgen Acquires Dark Blue Therapeutics for $840 Million
On Jan. 6, 2026, Amgen announced its acquisition of Dark Blue Therapeutics, a privately held biotechnology company based…
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CDC | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Genomics | Infectious Disease | Influenza | Measles | Vaccine
Harsh Flu Season May Be Driven by New Variant K
On Dec. 16, 2025, researchers from the International Vaccines Access Center (IVAC) reported that as of mid-December, flu,…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Environmental | Forestry | Genomics | Marine Science | Non-Profit Research
Once thought a fantasy, effort to sequence DNA of millions of species gains momentum
On Nov. 4, 2025, six years ago this month, scientists launched a massively ambitious effort to sequence the…
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Biological ‘moonshot’ accelerates efforts to genetically map life on earth
On Sept. 4, 2025, a global collaboration that includes experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute announced mapping out…
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Cardiology | COVID-19 | Disease | Environmental | Infectious Disease | Influenza | Measles | Oncology | Vaccine
U.S. excess deaths continued to rise even after the COVID-19 pandemic
On May 23, 2025, a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) led study revealed that there were…
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UK Reports First detection of West Nile virus in mosquitoes
On May 21, 2025, A research programme by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Animal and Plant…
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Genetic Factors May Influence Liver Fat Even in Healthy Weight People
On May 15, 2025, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, announced…
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Microbe that infests hospitals can digest medical-grade plastic ― a first
On May 8, 2025, A strain of bacterium that often causes infections in hospital can break down plastic,…
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Century-old genetics mystery of Mendel’s peas finally solved
On Apr. 23, 2025, a team of researchers led by the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich, UK,…
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Childhood exposure to bacterial toxin may be triggering colorectal cancer epidemic among the young
On Apr. 23, 2025, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of California San Diego and their collaborators…
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Cartoon Illustrating “The NIH and U.S. Healthcare in Crisis” Published
On Apr. 21, 2025, LifeScienceHistory.com published the cartoon: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Healthcare in…
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Moderna’s UK Manufacturing Facility Received Manufacturing License from the MHRA
On Apr. 15, 2025, Moderna announced that its manufacturing facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire, the Moderna Innovation and Technology…
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Penguins tested positive for Avian Flu on South Georgia
On Mar. 11, 2024, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reported that penguins on the sub-Antarctic Islands of South…
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Biotechnology | Clinical Research | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | NIH | Non-Profit Research | Therapeutics | Vaccine
Hutchinson Cancer Center leads large-scale review of COVID-19 clinical trials that highlights multiple disparities
On Dec. 5, 2022, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center announced that according to a new meta-analysis women were…
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WHO announced nulti-country mpox outbreak in non-endemic countries
On May 21, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that since May 13, 2022, cases of mpox…
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WHO informed of a confirmed case of mpox in an individual who travelled from the United Kingdom to Nigeria
On May 7, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of a confirmed case of Mpox in…
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University of Oxford reported brain regions related to smell show decline following mild COVID-19
On Mar. 7, 2022, researchers from the University of Oxford have used data from UK Biobank participants to…
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University of Oxford researchers created largest ever human family tree
On Feb. 24, 2022, researchers from the University of Oxford have used data from UK Biobank participants to…
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Complete trial results of Novavax COVID-19 investigational vaccine posted to preprint server medRxiv
On May 21, 2021, Novavax announced that the full results from the Phase 3, randomized, observer-blinded, placebo-controlled trial…
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Novavax announced participation in mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccine booster trial in the United Kingdom
On May 21, 2021, Novavax announced participation in a mix-and-match (vaccine interchangeability) COVID-19 vaccine booster trial that led…
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EMA issued positive scientific opinion on GSK and Vir Biotechnology’s sotrovimab for the early treatment of COVID-19
On May 21, 2021, GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Human Medicinal…
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Medicago and GSK announced positive interim Phase 2 results for adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On May 18, 2021, GlaxoSmithKline and Medicago reported positive interim Phase 2 clinical trial safety and immunogenicity data for…
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University of British Columbia researchers unveiled first molecular images of B.1.1.7 COVID-19 mutation
On May 3, 2021, University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers were the first in the world to publish…
