Vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been considered to be the most effective way to reduce the mortality and morbidity of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Several vaccine candidates have received approval, while many are still at various stages of clinical trials. One of the most potent vaccines that have
The latest: As COVID-19 numbers rise in parts of northern Ontario, the federal government has approved the province’s request to again enlist the military to help distribute vaccines in remote communities of the region. Ottawa’s minister of emergency preparedness, Bill Blair, announced Saturday that the Canadian Rangers, who work for the Armed Forces in isolated and coastal
A new formulation of bevacizumab for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is headed for evaluation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amid controversy about a phase 3 trial. FDA approval would set bevacizumab-vikg (Lytenava) apart from formulations from compounding pharmacies currently sold for off-label ophthalmic use, said Firas M. Rahhal, MD, an associate
10x Genomics’ Singapore hub is spread over 53,000-square-feet of space, which includes automated production suites for reagent manufacturing and lab space that will be utilized for training. The location will also be used to provide a commercial location in the APAC region to provide in-region sales, marketing and customer support capabilities. When asked why Singapore
The Make-a-Wish Foundation is known for bringing to life the requests of children facing terminal or potentially life-threatening illnesses. While these kids absolutely deserve the attention and wish fulfillment, one very special teen in Mississippi used Make-a-Wish as an opportunity to give back to his community. 13-year-old Abraham Olagbegi, who was born with a rare
Demonstrators hold signs during a protest against Covid-19 mandates outside the General Motors (GM) Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Mathew Hatcher | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal appeals court has called President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses “fatally flawed” and “staggeringly overbroad,” arguing that
A team led by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine uncovered new evidence supporting a cancer-promoting role for enzyme MAPK6. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that MAPK6 furthers cancer growth by activating the AKT pathway, a known cancer-promoting cellular mechanism. The findings suggest that therapies directed at interfering with MAPK6 activity
Can comic book characters help us conquer our fears and discover the hero within? When the first lockdown was announced in 2020, I made a decision: to watch all the Marvel films, in chronological order, from Captain America to Endgame. Once I got through them, I moved on to the Lord of the Rings trilogy,
Young children with a history of eating problems in the first three years of life were more likely to receive low scores on assessments of child development, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The findings suggest that children with multiple eating problems — frequent crying during meals, pushing food
The COVID-19 situation may have improved drastically in the recent months compared to when the pandemic started, but some people are still left with traces of the virus through symptoms that manifest longer than the usual. This is common among long COVID sufferers, and even kids are not spared from this condition. Understanding Long COVID
Local community health workers in rural China successfully treated patients with hypertension, enabling more than half to reach normal blood pressures, in a new study involving almost 34,000 patients. In the study, local health workers (known as village doctors), most of whom had minimal formal medical education and were trained with a standard protocol that
Scheduled to open in March 2023, the new 38,000-square-foot production plant will produce the company’s Proteus line of clean-label protein ingredients for meat, poultry and protein-based applications, which Kemin acquired in April 2021. The site will have an initial capacity to create applications for more than 100 billion pounds of meat, poultry, and protein-based ingredients that
The BioPharma Solutions (BPS) business unit of Baxter International is about to benefit from an expansion of its sterile fill/finish manufacturing facility in Halle/Westfalen, Germany. The company’s division is focused on working with pharma and biotech partners to develop and manufacture parenteral products. Outsourcing-Pharma connected with a Baxter spokesperson, who told us the expansion is
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The Big Idea The Food and Drug Administration provides less stringent oversight of overseas research trials used in deciding whether to approve a drug than those conducted domestically. That was the finding of my recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. My
Participants Participants in the Biomarker Research in ADHD: the Impact of Nutrition (BRAIN) study were recruited via the media and healthcare institutions. Eligibility for participation in the study was assessed during a personal intake interview with the parents. Inclusion criteria were right-handed boys, aged ≥ 8 and ≤ 10 years, and meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
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Addressing moderate or lesser tricuspid regurgitation (TR) during mitral valve surgery improved outcomes, largely by halting progression of the leaky tricuspid, a randomized trial from the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network showed. Mitral valve surgery with tricuspid annuloplasty led to 63% lower combined risk of reoperation for tricuspid regurgitation (TR), progression of TR by two grades
Creative expression became a healthy outlet for Danny to channel his Tourette’s syndrome, and through his experience he’s recognised that mental health can hold a mirror up to show our true selves, as well as the world around us I am a singer songwriter with Tourette’s syndrome. My mother is a healer, my father an
Students who have repeated a grade have higher risks of being victims of bullying in countries around the world, according to a new study of nearly half a million students publishing November 11th in PLOS Medicine by Xiayun Zuo of Fudan University, China, and colleagues. The study is a part of the PLOS Medicine Special
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A new gene therapy can significantly improve the visual acuity of people with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), researchers say. LHON often causes legal blindness, but in a compassionate use study, patients’ best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) improved from an average of 2.0 (± 1.1) logMAR (counting fingers Snellen) to 0.9 (± .7) logMAR (20/160
The financing effort was led by Northpond Ventures. Synthesis Capital also participated in the round with existing investors, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, The Production Board, Craft Ventures, E14 Fund, Box Group, Verily Life Sciences, and Section 32, also contributing. Matt Ball, CTO, Culture Biosciences, told BioPharma-Reporter the company, whose facility is located in South San Francisco,