Broad Institute

APRIL 25, 2024

Sabeti and her lab had also responded quickly to Ebola in 2014, working with hospitals and government officials in Sierra Leone to sequence viral genomes from patients and make the data available to local communities. Their work would later reveal that the Lassa virus had likely been circulating in West Africa for at least 500 years.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

say the government’s scientific advisers. Cases of the virus and hospital admissions for Covid-19 are thought to be doubling every seven to eight days in the UK. Image copyright. Getty Images. There is widespread growth of the epidemic across the country and the R number has risen to between 1.1 At least 13.5

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The UK government said it was holding discussions about developing a vaccine through such “human challenge studies” No contracts have yet been signed, the BBC understands. “These discussions are part of our work to research ways of treating, limiting and hopefully preventing the virus so we can end the pandemic sooner.”

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The government will publish details of its plan to prioritise coronavirus tests in the next few days, after widespread problems with the system. Mr Burnham called on the government to work with local authorities to establish where there are shortages and where capacity should be focused. Image copyright.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

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.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The report, based on evidence from doctors, nurses, patient groups and NHS leaders, said the case for routine testing for all NHS staff in all parts of the country was “compelling” And it should be introduced as soon as possible before winter to help reduce the spread of the virus. Image copyright. Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The government is facing criticism over its “world-beating” coronavirus testing system after people reported struggles to get tests, including being offered slots at testing centres a long way away. The government says tests in these settings are often conducted over multiple days. Image copyright. Getty Images.

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APRIL 7, 2022

announced today that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Pfizer will acquire ReViral, a privately held, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel antiviral therapeutics that target respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). NYSE: PFE) and ReViral Ltd.

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Codon

AUGUST 26, 2024

When COVID-19 emerged in 2019, by contrast, mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna took just 326 days from the initial sequencing of the virus to gaining approval for emergency use. These drugs would be ideal tools to bridge the wait for a vaccine against a quickly-spreading virus.

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MAY 16, 2024

A Novel Virus Appears In retrospect, everything unfolded with astonishing speed. Did it there either recombine with another virus on its own, or inspire a manipulation of another virus of a key part of the spike gene, seeding the pandemic through a “lab leak?” Work on vaccines ensued too.

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DrugBaron

APRIL 13, 2020

More than a month after the World Health Organisation declared COVID19 a global pandemic on 11th March we are still missing one crucial piece of data from our modelling: the fraction of people who have established productive immunity against the SARS-CoV2 virus.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

These antibodies were higher than those seen in people who had recovered from the virus. Earlier this month, the US Government announced that it would purchase 100 million doses of the Moderna vaccine in a deal worth $1.53 million.

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APRIL 14, 2021

government for its neutralizing antibody therapies authorized for emergency use as a treatment for COVID-19. government have agreed to modify the purchase agreement of bamlanivimab alone and focus on supply of bamlanivimab and etesevimab together.

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DrugBaron

MAY 24, 2021

Just this week , we have seen the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) urge the Government to slow the lifting of restrictions out of concern that the so-called Indian variant of covid might be spreading more quickly and could cause a further wave of infections and possibly therefore hospitalizations and deaths.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

(Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced an Advance Purchase Agreement with the government of New Zealand for the purchase of 10.7 million doses of NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’ candidate vaccine against COVID-19. About NVX-CoV2373.

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MARCH 3, 2022

If approved by the FDA, this maternal immunization has the potential to be the first vaccine candidate to help protect infants in their vulnerable first months of life from disease caused by this highly-contagious virus. Burden of RSV RSV is a contagious virus and a common cause of respiratory illness. Pfizer Inc.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This week, another pharma company revealed a new technology device that can detect if a patient is infectious or not, while the Russian government published results of its Sputnik V vaccine, claiming it is more than 95 per cent efficient 42 days after the first dose. Read on to for the full insight.

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PLOS: DNA Science

AUGUST 22, 2024

It might seem minor, just a few pages, but the entire subplot of a nefarious government cover-up of a biotech disaster unfurls from it. In the 1940s, army scientists at a government facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland, began testing chemicals for use as defoliants. ” I can’t wait for the film. BUT WAIT!!!

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Codon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The government had long since ceased to care about the potential of monopolization in the pharmaceutical industry, as by this point it had come to resemble a luxury service provider. On the surface, they hadn't deviated much from the early 2020s: a virus infected a cell and released the genetic therapy hidden within.

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JULY 18, 2024

For instance, the influenza virus is notorious for its ability to undergo antigenic drift, accumulating mutations in its surface proteins that can render existing vaccines less effective.  One example was the UK government's Every Vaccination Gives Us Hope campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Demand for coronavirus tests has almost trebled among young children in England this month – but only 1% were found to have the virus, figures show. In the first two weeks of September, more than 200,000 under-nines were tested, according to government’s test-and-trace programme. More demand, less risk.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

At the forefront are a team of dedicated government contact tracers, who have the authority to isolate and test anyone who is suspected of having been in contact with the virus. South Korea, a country held up as a model for its response to Covid-19, has been struggling to contain a new nationwide outbreak.

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MARCH 30, 2022

First, government funding supporting access to vaccination and treatment for COVID has run out and so far, is not replenished. The government established program to fund access for the uninsured has stopped accepting reimbursement claims for treatment and will stop shortly for vaccines (on April 5). And there are consequences.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The UK is at a “critical point” in the coronavirus pandemic and “heading in the wrong direction”, the government’s chief medical officer will warn later. At the briefing later, Prof Whitty will be joined by the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, to present the latest data.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“We know this won’t be easy, but we must take further action to control the resurgence in cases of the virus and protect the NHS.” But what ministers hope is that the move, along with the rule of six that came into force last week, will act as a warning to the public that efforts to curb the virus need to be redoubled.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

It may be that reinforcing the need for people to limit their contacts with others will be enough to change the virus’s course. Stop the virus in its tracks? If you look at the transmission of the virus alone, it’s clear that the stricter the lockdown, the better. Very clearly no,” he said.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Boris Johnson is spending the weekend considering whether to tighten Covid-19 measures in England, after saying the UK was “now seeing a second wave” The government is understood to be looking at a ban on households mixing, and reducing opening hours for pubs. At least 13.5 Further Covid-19 measures ‘likely’ in London.

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DrugBank

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

  To address this market failure, governments and international organizations are exploring innovative financial mechanisms to stimulate antibiotic innovation.   In addition to these government-led initiatives, alternative business models are being explored to incentivize antibiotic innovation.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said members of an international team had begun heading to China as part of an arrangement between the WHO and the Chinese government, the Associated Press reported. ” The experts are expected to visit the city of Wuhan, where it is believed COVID-19 first emerged. .”

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APRIL 17, 2024

His lab applies approaches from computational biology and machine learning to unravel the molecular determinants of response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy, understand the co-evolution of tumour cells and the human immune system during cancer evolution, and learn the complex rules that govern T cell epitope recognition and immune escape.He

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And yet, with interim data announced today showing a vaccine candidate from Pfizer and BioNTech to have at least 90% efficacy, it seems certain a vaccine to protect against a virus that was unknown to science a year ago will be approved in the US and Europe, before the end of 2020. There are useful lessons to be learned from all this.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They said the R number, the virus’s reproduction number, appears to have fallen since measures including the “rule of six” were introduced. The React study is highly influential, both due to its size and because it gives an up-to-date picture of how the virus is spreading. Image copyright. Image caption.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 27, 2023

The owners of the felines all reported feeding their pets raw meat, and samples of the meat revealed not only flu virus genetic material, but also infectious virus. The fear is that a variant of the deadly virus might emerge that infects people, and, worst-case-scenario, passes from person to person. emerged in late 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told the Downing Street press conference on Wednesday what had happened in the Oxford trial was not unusual. ” Official figures released on Saturday showed a further 3,497 people have tested positive with the virus in the UK. for the first time since March.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The exact origins of the virus remain unclear, but a leading theory is that it was carried by bats and passed to humans through an intermediary species of animal, sold as food or medicine in traditional Chinese “wet markets.” ” Associated Press Article. © 2021 HealthDay. ” Associated Press Article. © 2021 HealthDay.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action, the government’s chief scientific adviser has warned. The rising transmission is a “six-month problem that we have to deal with collectively” The virus is not milder now than in April, despite claims to the contrary.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

While reading all the sequences present in a sample, researchers want to find any that are out of place, such as those that belong to a never-before-seen virus. government already deploys biosurveillance technologies and funds the development of new sequencing platforms.

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