Chinese AI system detects COVID-19 infection in chest CT images

A multidisciplinary research team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has developed an artificial intelligen...

April 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
Moderna announces new supply agreement with Israel for 2022

Moderna, Inc., a US based biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, has announced...

April 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
Fujifilm initiates new Ph III trial of Avigan for COVID-19 treatment in Japan

FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical has announced the initiation of a new phase III clinical trial in Japan concerning its anti-inf...

April 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
NZ seeks additional Janssen COVID-19 vaccine data

New Zealand's medicines regulator, Medsafe has requested additional information from Janssen, ahead of making a decision...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher Amplitude Solution receives EUA from FDA

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced on April 12, 2021 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has grant...

April 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
Israel's BATM launches no-swab saliva-based COVID-19 test

Israel-based BATM, a leading provider of real-time technologies for networking solutions and medical laboratory systems,...

April 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
GSK Australia receives provisional nod for COVID-19 mAb treatment

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), part of the Department of Health in Australia, has granted a provisiona...

April 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
BioVersys receives €20M in EU financing to support new antibiotics development

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and BioVersys AG, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing treatments ...

April 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Seegene begins exporting new COVID-19 variant tests worldwide

Seegene Inc., a biotech company specializing in molecular diagnostics, has announced that it has obtained an export perm...

April 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Sputnik V vaccine receives authorization in India

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) announces that Drug Controller General o...

April 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
GSK to provide fill and finish capacity for Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine

  Novavax Inc, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the UK Government Vaccines Taskforce have reached an agreement i...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Celonic and CureVac to manufacture 100 Million doses of CVnCoV

Germany based CureVac N.V., a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of transformative medicines based on mess...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia approves wider storage conditions for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has recently approved wider storage and transportation condition...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
CanSinoBIO's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine gets approval in Chile

China based CanSino Biologics Inc. has announced that the Instituto de Salud Pública de ...

April 9, 2021 | Friday | News
UK encourages England residents to opt for cost-free COVID-19 rapid test twice weekly

UK government has announced access to free, regular, rapid coronavirus testing from 9 April to everyone in England. In ...

April 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
South Korea approves J&J COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea’s Food and Drug Safety Ministry has granted final approval for the use of Johnson & Johnson’...

April 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
European countries adopt indoor Photocatalytic nano-coating to fight COVID-19

Finland's nanotechnology company Nanoksi Finland has introduced a self-disinfecting nanocoating that reduces the number ...

April 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
International researchers identifies a globally accessible treatment strategy for COVID-19

An international research collaboration involving researchers from the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo starts Ph 1 Trial for Nafamostat Inhalation Formulation to treat COVID-19

Daiichi Sankyo, based in Japan, has announced that it has initiated in Japan a first-in-human phase 1 trial for nafamost...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
BD receives EUA for rapid Ag test to screen asymptomatic individuals

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced that U.S. Food and D...

April 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
ADB approves $450 M loan to help Indonesia deliver effective COVID-19 vaccines

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $450 million loan to Indonesia to help Bio Farma, a state-owned vaccine ...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Viet Nam launches COVID-19 prevention and control products

Students and scientists at the Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) have carried out extensi...

April 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Sinovac announces annual capacity of 2 B doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced that the third production...

April 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Novacyt receives CE-Mark for COVID-19 detection kit for 6 variants

Novacyt, a Paris-based international specialist in clinical diagnostics, announced that the Company will launch SNPsig&r...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Taiwan and India discuss smart pandemic prevention system

On March 24, 2021, Taiwan and India discussed jointly the development of a smart pandemic prevention system in...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia's Starpharma's launches COVID-19 antiviral nasal spray VIRALEZE in the UK

Melbourne-based biotech Starpharma has launched its antiviral nasal spray VIRALEZE™ into the UK via a large nation...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Innovative diagnostics and Quest lab unify as Innoquest diagnostics

Innovative Diagnostic Pte. Ltd. and Quest Laboratories Pte. Ltd., both established private medical laboratories in Singa...

March 31, 2021 | Wednesday | News
HOPE Consortium kick starts World Immunisation & Logistics Summit in Dubai

The HOPE Consortium’s World Immunisation & Logistics Summit opened on March 30, 2021 by H.H. Sheikh Abdul...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
J&J to make available up to 400 M COVID-19 vaccine doses to African Union

Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, has enter...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher collaborates with Artificial to enhance COVID-19 diagnostic testing solution

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Artificial, developers of flexible automation softwar...

March 29, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore rolls out vaccination programme to younger age groups

Singapore is now rolling out the vaccination programme to younger age groups. As they are more familiar with the use of ...

March 29, 2021 | Monday | News
AZD1222 US Phase III primary analysis confirms safety and efficacy

Positive high-level results from the primary analysis of the Phase III trial of AZD1222 in the US have confirmed vaccine...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Gavi board approves COVAX buffer for high-risk groups in humanitarian settings

The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance on March 23, 2021, has approved the COVAX Buffer to ensure access to C...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore study reveals variation in SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody longevity

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and the Agency for Science, ...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher, Artificial collaborate to enhance COVID-19 testing platform

Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Artificial, developers of flexible automation software, have announced a strategic technol...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
CanSinoBIO's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine Convidecia™ receives approval in Hungary

CanSinoBIO Biologics Inc. announced that the Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYÉI) grant...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia invents portable tool to visualizes blood clots as 3D holographic Livestream

New portable technology that visualizes clots forming in flowing blood...

March 22, 2021 | Monday | News
CEPI, HKU expand partnership for intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have announced an exp...

March 19, 2021 | Friday | News
China's MGI contributes to Africa's COVID-19 response efforts

MGI, a global life-science technology innovator, lends a hand to resource-restrained African countries in response to th...

March 19, 2021 | Friday | News
UK Biobank to gather SARS-CoV-2 infection data on its 500,000 participants

UK Biobank, the large-scale biomedical database and research resource, announces today the launch of a study that will e...

March 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo begins manufacture of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd announced on March 12, 2021, that it has started manufacturing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vacc...

March 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, IDT support manufacturing of J&J's COVID-19 vaccine

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced a reciprocal agreement with IDT Biologika GmbH (“IDT&rdqu...

March 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia injects $1.1B towards COVID-19 health response and suppression strategy

Australian Government has announced an investment of more than $1.1 billion to extend ...

March 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
BioVaxys enters bioproduction agreement with Wuxi Biologics for COVID-19 vaccine

British Columbia-registered BioVaxys Technology Corp., the world leader in haptenized protein vaccines for antiviral and...

March 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
WHO grants EUL to J&J’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine

Johnson & Johnson has announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued emergency use listing (EUL) for ...

March 15, 2021 | Monday | News
EMA recommends COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen for authorisation in the EU

EMA has recommended granting conditional marketing author...

March 12, 2021 | Friday | News
PCR biosystems launch advanced Bst Polymerase reagents

PCR Biosystems, the UK-based specialists in DNA and RNA analysis, have launched a range of IsoFast™ Bst Polym...

March 12, 2021 | Friday | News
Switzerland's DG-Nika develops pocket inhaler to guard against Covid-19 and its variants

Swiss startup, DG-Nika AG research team has developed a solution for a new approach to protecting the population from a ...

March 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Vaccination and physical distancing in combination can combat pandemic, revels CUHK

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has conducted an epidemiological study investigating the effect of vaccinatio...

March 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
PerkinElmer launches comprehensive solutions for detecting SARS-CoV-2 mutations

PerkinElmer, Inc has announced the launch of two Research Use Only (RUO) solutions, PKamp™ VariantDetect&trad...

March 15, 2021 | Monday | News
Zuellig Pharma launches eZVax, a vaccine management solution

Zuellig Pharma, a leading healthcare services provider in Asia has launched eZVax, a vaccine management solution that en...

March 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
EU supports Member States with additional 4 million BioNTech-Pfizer doses

The European Commission has reached an agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer for the supply of four million more doses of COVID...

March 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan donates PPEs to allies in Africa and America

In conjunction with Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Medtecs Group, a leading personal protective equipme...

March 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Italian firms sign agreement to produce Sputnik V in Europe

The Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce (CCIR) holds an aim of contributing to the development of economic, commercial, ...

March 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Moderna to provide 13 M doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Philippines

Moderna, Inc has announced a supply agreement with the Government of The Philippines for 13 million doses of the COVID-1...

March 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
A strong and balanced T Cell response prevents SARS CoV-2 infection

Even though they show no signs of COVID-19, people with asymptomatic infections mount a virus-specific T-cell immune res...

March 8, 2021 | Monday | News
FDA authorizes adaptive Biotechnologies T-Detect COVID test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on March 5th 2021 issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the T-Detect COV...

March 8, 2021 | Monday | News
Oxford Immunotec invents Cell-Mediated (T cell) immune response detection kit

Oxford Immunotec Global PLC, a global, high-growth diagnostics company, announced that it has released the T-SPOT.COVID&...

March 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Hong Kong develops UV-C disinfection robot

Cleaning and disinfecting public spaces have become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on L...

March 5, 2021 | Friday | News
GC Pharma to distribute 40M doses of Moderna vaccine in South Korea

GC Pharma has announced that it will support Moderna and the government of the Republic of Korea in the distribution of ...

March 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Eisai to support construction of coronavirus screening framework in Kenya

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has decided to assent to and support a project led by CA Medlynks Kenya,...

March 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
EU presents a revised approach to fiscal policy in response to the pandemic

The European Commission has adopted a Communication providing the Member States with broad guidance on the conduct of fi...

March 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
GLC Medical develops world's fastest COVID-19 screening test

Canadian firm GLC Medical (GLCM) Inc is pleased to announce completion of development of the GLCM SARS-CoV-2 I...

March 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
UK conducts innovative COVID-19 trials with deliberate volunteered infection

United Kingdom government announced an investment of 33.6 million pounds ($43.5 million) in a study called “h...

March 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Johnson & Johnson receives EUA for COVID-19 vaccine

Johnson & Johnson has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued emergency use authorisatio...

March 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong plans innovative public healthcare solutions

Hong Kong based Avalon SteriTech Limited and US headquartered SoftBank Robotics Group (SBRG) have announced a joint vent...

March 1, 2021 | Monday | News
Experts propose customized measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission

The R&D ecosystem in Singapore has been studying various measures that can help support the safe reopening of the ec...

March 1, 2021 | Monday | News
UCL researchers lead £11m projects to investigate Long Covid syndromes

The recently funded UK Long Covid studies were recommended by an independent panel of research experts and patients with...

February 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Malaysia's disinfectant Nanovon makes headway into Qatar, Russia, & Central Asia

Voneco's Nanovon™️, a scientifically-substantiated self disinfectant nano-coating hosted a strategic presentatio...

February 26, 2021 | Friday | News
DHL successfully delivers first batch of COVID-19 vaccines to Malaysia

DHL Express, the world's leading express service provider, has successfully delivered the first batch of COVID-19 vaccin...

February 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Pharma industry’s reputation rides on COVID-19 vaccine rollout

From 230 vaccine candidates, seven COVID-19 vaccines are being used in at least one country, three of which have been de...

February 20, 2021 | Saturday | Opinion
European Union contributes $1.2B to COVAX vaccine facility

The European Union has announced an additional $600M for the COVAX Facility, doubling its contribution to date for the g...

February 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Agilent unveils immunoassay kit to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the launch of the Agilent Dako SARS-CoV-2 IgG Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent A...

February 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Indian conglomerate, Godrej & Boyce to strengthen vaccine cold chain globally

Cold Chain Partner to the world's largest covid vaccination drive in India, refrigeration expert Godrej & Boyce ('G&...

February 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore receives first shipment of Moderna vaccine

Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that the first shipment of Moderna vaccines arrived in Singapore...

February 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia to provide COVID-19 vaccinations for free to all visa holders

Indian students and universities have warmly welcomed the news that Indian students living in Australia will be eligible...

February 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia grants provisional approval to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval to AstraZeneca for its COVID-19 vaccine...

February 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Philippine partners JHPIA to support Covid-critical PPE and medical supplies

The Philippine government in partnership with the Japan Hygiene Products Industry Association (JHPIA) organized an ...

February 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves Bio-Rad’s multi-target reliance SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB RT-PCR assay kits

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products has announced that...

February 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China's Suntrap discovers LeSoleil to fight COVID-19 and future epidemics

AI-assisted computing has greatly improved the efficiency of new drug research and development. China's Suntrap Life Tec...

February 15, 2021 | Monday | News
Indonesia accelerates COVID-19 testing capability using Abbott's device

Abbott's latest introductions in Indonesia include the Panbio™ COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device for the det...

February 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Globally 128 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered so far, updates WHO

WHo at a media briefing on Feb 10, 2021, updated that globally around 128 million vaccine doses administered so far and ...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
FDA approves monoclonal Abs for COVID-19 treatment

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorisation (EUA) for bamlanivimab and etese...

February 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Mitsubishi's air purification technology potentially inactivates SARS-CoV-2

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems Ltd. (MHI Thermal Systems), a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia prepares training modules for COVID-19 vaccination workforce

The first Australian Government-funded training modules for the COVID-19 vaccination workforce, including for immunisati...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore unravels molecular and serological evidence for SARS-COV-2 origin

While the World Health Organization (WHO) continues its mission to Wuhan investigating the origin and early transmission...

February 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Pakistan approves Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announces the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus has been approved by ...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan to offer Actemra for treating COVID-19 patients

Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced results from Phase III J-COVACTA clinical study in Japan for the humanized anti-huma...

February 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac receives conditional marketing authorisation for COVID-19 vaccine in China

Sinovac Biotech Ltd has announced that the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has granted a condition...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people

This is counted as a single dose, and may not equal the total number of people vaccinated, depending on the specific dos...

February 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
GlobalData reports the status of Global COVID-19 vaccine trials

While governments are ramping up vaccination programs, continued research into the effectiveness of the vaccines is impe...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | Analysis
Korea approves first anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment

Celltrion Group has announced that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of South Korea has granted conditional ma...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | News
Merck, BioNTech accelerate supply of urgently needed lipids

Merck and BioNTech are further expanding their strategic partnership. Merck, in close collaboration with BioNTech, will ...

February 5, 2021 | Friday | News
USP expands alcohol-based hand sanitiser support

In response to the alcohol-based hand sanitiser quality incidents reported across the globe, the US Pharmacopeia (USP) i...

February 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
Sinovac Biotech files for conditional market authorisation for CoronaVac vaccine

Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced that it has officially filed f...

February 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore approves interim authorization of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, has announced that the...

February 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
ADB provides $25M to assist Philippines procure COVID-19 vaccines

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated $25 million to help the Philippine government purchase vaccines for the c...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia invests $1.9B more towards COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Australia has outlined plans to deliver Australia's COVID-19 vaccination program this year. The plan includes the a...

February 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine demonstrates 89.3% efficacy in UK Phase 3 Trial

Novavax, Inc., a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, announced th...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's TMDU, Fujitsu to develop management system for viral infections

Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Fujitsu Limited are developing a system that reduces the burden on t...

February 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News

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