We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. In normal circumstances, vaccines take years to develop, and scientists have quashed several years worth of work into a matter of months in order to end the pandemic and let life return […]
As the world moves into the next stage of COVID-19 management and several vaccine candidates approach end-stage trials, scientists say a critical consideration for India is storage temperature and a protein-based preventive might therefore work best for the country. The decision on procuring the right COVID-19 vaccine depends on multiple factors, including safety, price and […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The Moderna vaccine which protects against coronavirus is nearly 95 percent effective according to early data from Moderna. The UK Government has said it is in “advanced discussions” with Moderna to secure […]
During the warmer months, especially on a full moon night, several thousand horseshoe crabs emerge from the sea onto beaches across the U.S. mid-Atlantic to spawn. For pharmaceutical companies, they work as an important resource for making medicines safe. Teams of lab workers capture the horseshoe crabs and take them to labs to harvest their […]
Scientists world over have been working day and night to find an end for the deadly coronavirus, which has killed more than 26,000 people in the UK. A drug called Remdesivir is among a handful which scientists and the World Health Organization consider to be promising. What is Remdesivir? Remdesivir is an experimental antiviral drug […]
Trials of COVID-19 vaccines from Oxford University and Imperial College London will begin on Thursday. Dr Katrina Pollock, the principal investigator for the coronavirus vaccine trials at Imperial College London, told LBC’s Nick Ferrari how the trials will work. She said: ”This is the start of the first of the clinical trials in the UK. […]
Coronavirus was first discovered in December 2019, originating in Wuhan, China. The virus has since spread across the world, infecting millions of people. As the world suffers the effects of the pandemic there is a high demand for a vaccine, but there could be a long wait before a vaccine is approved and rolled out. […]
Coronavirus is the global pandemic that has shown how fragile life can be. People have had to change their daily routines, the NHS is under huge amounts of pressure and you can’t blow off steam in a pub. How long will this all last? Prime Minister Boris Johnson believes the UK can “turn the tide” […]
