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Successful clinical trial for re-engineered Covid vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

The University of Queensland’s re-engineered clamp platform has produced a vaccine that is equally safe and virus-neutralising as an approved Covid vaccine considered among the best in its class. The Clamp2 trial group showed a 2.5-fold fold boost in neutralising ‘titres’ and it was 2.1 in the Novavax group.

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Partnership to execute next generation Covid-19 vaccines clinical trial

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Next generation Covid-19 vaccines could have the potential to expand the breadth of coverage against existing and future variants of the virus, extend the duration of protection, and offer better protection in the prevention of illness and transmission over the current state of vaccine technologies.

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New UK partnership to accelerate mRNA research

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It is hoped that a new partnership between the UK government and BioNTech will help accelerate clinical trials of personalised immunotherapies for cancer and infectious disease vaccines. . The agreement means cancer patients will get early access to trials exploring personalised mRNA therapies, like cancer vaccines. .

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Long Covid: A call to action for drug developers

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highlight the impact of viral infection on several facets of this central mitochondrial organelle, including bioenergetics, metabolism, inflammation, and oxidative stress, with downregulation of these processes across several organ systems both in the presence of the virus (and correlated with severity) and after the virus is not detected.

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Covid-19: UK volunteers could be given virus to test vaccine

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The UK could be the first country in the world to carry out Covid “challenge trials” – where healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with coronavirus to test possible vaccines. News of the potential trials comes amid a surge in confirmed cases in the UK. NHS Covid-19 app launches for the over-16s.

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Coronavirus vaccine: UK signs deals for 90 million virus vaccine doses

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The UK government has signed deals for a further 90 million doses of coronavirus vaccine. With most vaccine trials ending in failure, the government is effectively hedging its bets, hoping that at least one of the vaccines it has purchased proves safe and effective. Inactivated whole virus vaccines: 60 million doses Valneva.

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Regeneron Announces U.S. Government Agreement to Purchase Additional COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Doses

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) will purchase additional supply of the casirivimab and imdevimab antibody cocktail for use in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients to meet the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed goals. million doses. . We are pleased to work with the U.S.