Tag: pharmaceuticals
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Immune Responses Shown in Covid-19 Nasal Vaccine
An experimental vaccine to prevent Covid-19 infections, given as a nasal spray, produces immune responses in tests with lab mice.
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Covid-19 Vaccines, Therapies – 13 July 2020
This week’s report shows a marked increase in activity on therapies, while the number of vaccines in development and clinical trials increased only slightly.
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Cannabis Assessed for Pain in Real-World Trial
A clinical trial in Canada is evaluating medical cannabis products as treatments for chronic pain with participants reporting their experiences online.
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Pharma Companies Form $1B Antibiotics Fund
A group of 23 pharmaceutical companies are creating an investment fund to finance research and development of new drugs to combat antibiotic resistance.
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NIH Opens Covid-19 Clinical Trial Network
National Institutes of Health is organizing a collection of sites for late-stage clinical trials to test Covid-19 vaccines and antibody treatments.
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EC, France Fund Universal Covid-19, Flu Vaccines
A biotechnology company is receiving European Commission and French government funds to develop vaccines that protect against all strains of Covid-19 and flu viruses.
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BARDA to Buy $2B in Covid-19 Vaccines, Therapies
The federal health preparedness agency is spending more than $2 billion for developers to produce Covid-19 vaccines and treatments now in clinical trials.
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FDA Halts Off-the-Shelf Engineered T-Cell Trial
A company designing gene-edited T-cells as cancer therapies stopped its clinical trial of a treatment for multiple myeloma when a patient in the trial died.
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Dual Antibodies in Trial to Prevent Covid-19 Infections
A cocktail of two synthetic antibodies will soon be tested in a clinical trial to prevent against Covid-19 infections, while also in a trial as a treatment for the disease.
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Covid-19 Vaccines, Therapies – 6 July 2020
A continuing feature on Science & Enterprise is a weekly status report of vaccines and therapies for Covid-19 by the scientific illustration software company BioRender.