Tag: Covid-19
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Hospitals Testing Fast Covid-19 Diagnostic
A New England hospital system is assessing with real patients a point-of-care test for Covid-19 viruses that returns results in about an hour.
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Trial Testing Rare Disease Drug for Covid-19 Pneumonia
A clinical trial is underway assessing a drug approved for a rare inherited disease as a treatment for people hospitalized with pneumonia from Covid-19 infections.
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Breath Analysis Sensor Licensed to Detect Covid-19
Discoveries in a university lab that enable detection of Covid-19 infections from a person’s breath are being licensed for development by a biotechnology company.
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Covid-19 Vaccines, Therapies – 10 August 2020
Seven new vaccine projects got underway last week, raising the total to 164, with six more vaccines reaching clinical trials now totaling 41.
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Infographic – Mental Health Effects of Pandemic
Physical symptoms experienced by people with Covid-19 infections are well documented over the past few months, but the psychological toll is also beginning to get attention.
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Grant Funds Placenta Stem Cell Trial Sites for Covid-19
A clinical trial testing stem cells from human placentas as a treatment for Covid-19 infections is expanding to three more sites in California.
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Venture Fund Plans $350M for Biotech Start-Ups
A new venture fund plans investments in early-stage life science companies addressing critical needs in therapeutics, but also agriculture and industrial biotechnology.
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NIH Begins Covid-19 Antibody Trials
National Institutes of Health is beginning clinical trials of experimental antibody therapies to treat Covid-19 infections in people with symptoms ranging from mild to severe.
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UCLA, Apple Partner on Depression Study
Researchers from University of California in Los Angeles and Apple Corp. are beginning a study of wearable and home technologies to detect depression.
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Four Ways Businesses Are Surviving Covid-19
Here are the examples that you can copy that are helping enterprises through this difficult period.