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MAY 16, 2024

That’s thanks to accelerated genome sequencing technologies, expanded laboratory capabilities, and interacting infrastructure on a global level. A Novel Virus Appears In retrospect, everything unfolded with astonishing speed. We’re still figuring out exactly how the virus travels from air to human respiratory tract.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Hospitals with laboratories use pathogen detection technology developed by Sabeti’s group that scans samples for a panel of additional pathogens. It can take only 36 hours for a virus that is emerging in a very remote place to find itself in New York or Paris — they are just a few flights away,” Happi said.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2021

The drug, which has undergone several clinical trials for human conditions but has not yet received approval to treat humans, inhibited the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in human cell cultures and in a mouse model, leading to much lower viral loads. The research team, including scientists from the U.S.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets inside cells to cause infection. However, the discovery does show that the virus can change in unexpected ways and find new ways to cause infection. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Because SARS-CoV-2 is so highly infectious, basic researchers without access to specially designed biosafety facilities may be limited in their ability to study the virus. While the quantum dots may bind and enter human cells just like the virus, they can’t cause an infection. Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, D.C.)

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 17, 2024

Dr Chowell spent a year as a visiting graduate student at the Moe Win Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. During residency, he conducted laboratory research with Dr Timothy Chan investigating predictors of response to immunotherapy as part of the American Board of Radiology Holman Research pathway.

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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. At least nine laboratories outside the U.S. Federally funded laboratories must also deposit genetic sequences into public databases, such as GISAID and GenBank.

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BMG Labtech

MARCH 11, 2024

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISAs) are an essential technique in today’s laboratory with many applications in the life sciences. 1,2 Anton Schuurs and Bauke van Weemen at the research laboratories of NV Organon, Oss, the Netherlands developed a similar technique which was also published in 1971.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 31, 2023

Now researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used cutting-edge continuous laboratory evolution and engineering methods to develop improved versions of the gene-editing tool. What had not been done until now is improving the reverse transcriptase in a way that’s tailor-made for prime editing.”

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Agency IQ

JULY 26, 2024

reference laboratories for high-risk diagnostics The newly available May 2024 meetings of the Medical Device Coordination Group provide insight into the European Commission’s efforts to fully implement the European medical device and diagnostic regulations. Reference Laboratories: E.U. Top IVDR Notified Body concern: Lack of E.U.

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Broad Institute

MAY 14, 2024

William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impacts of Studier’s development, in the 1980s, of an efficient and scalable technology to produce mass amounts of RNA and proteins in laboratories that is widely used today all over the world.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

Researchers from Columbia University and the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have elucidated a method to produce large quantities of the receptor that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein uses to bind to the surface of human cells.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

UK firm develops solution for identifying whether patients are actually infectious from a virus or not. Iceni Diagnostics has revealed it is developing a new technology that can disclose if patients are actually infectious with a live virus or not. Read on to for the full insight.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 6, 2021

A Novel Ebola Virus VP40 Matrix Protein-Based Screening for Identification of Novel Candidate Medical Countermeasures.’ sangivamycin) has broad-spectrum antiviral activity in laboratory-based assays against several viruses. ROCHESTER, N.Y. , 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — OyaGen, Inc. Bennett et al., About OYA1. OYA1 (a.k.a.

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addgene Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a single stranded, Parvoviridae DNA virus, packaged in a non-enveloped icosahedral capsid, that can be used to express genes of interest in cell and animal models. This post was contributed by guest blogger Didem Goz Ayturk with edits and updates from Addgenies Karen Guerin and Susanna Stroik.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 25, 2020

The Public Health Agency of Canada ‘s (PHAC) National Microbiology Laboratory monitors Canadian cases of COVID-19 with the provinces and territories through ongoing analysis of genomic databases in Canada. The best way to prevent infection with any variant of COVID-19 is to follow public health measures.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A rapid test can accurately diagnose a coronavirus infection within 90 minutes without needing a specialist laboratory, say scientists. The device is already being used in eight NHS hospitals to quickly identify patients who are carrying the virus. ” If the lab tests said the patient was free of the virus, so did the rapid test.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

They used an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood-brain barrier after intravenous administration. However, with a strong therapy design and promising laboratory results in hand, the researchers have good reason to be hopeful.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Study Now Enrolling Participants Who Live in the Same Household as Someone With Symptomatic, Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19. The global study is enrolling individuals who are at least 18 years of age and reside in the same household as someone with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection with symptoms. MOVe-AHEAD Study.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This study is conducted by the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases of Xiamen University, China National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, and Xiamen Innovax Biotech Company.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 20, 2021

As laboratories around the world tackle the challenges of screening large numbers of samples for SARS-CoV-2, the managers of these labs have turned to the use of automation to address some key concerns. As there are fewer steps carried out by hand this reduces potential exposure for laboratory staff as well. In the examples below, we.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 8, 2021

The companies today reported findings on one secondary objective from the Phase 2a study, showing a reduction in time (days) to negativity of infectious virus isolation in nasopharyngeal swabs from participants with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, as determined by isolation in Vero cell line culture. About Molnupiravir.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Chapter 2 explores immuno-oncology, emphasising the significance of robust T cells, the potential of cytokines IL-12 and IL-18, and the innovative use of CAR T-cell methods against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 26, 2021

offered its genomics expertise to identify emerging variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to countries that lack the resources to make such identifications. The plan dovetails with the Chatham House Sustainable Laboratories Initiative , announced in 2019. On Tuesday, the U.K. The offer came as part of the U.K.’s South Africa and Brazil.

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PerkinElmer

MAY 28, 2020

Unfortunately, the road towards treatment can be time-consuming, especially when utilizing assays with live virus. The handling of these pathogens needs to take place in research laboratories that are designated as biosafety level 3 or higher due to its dangerous infectious nature.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 30, 2024

He has also emerged in recent years as a skilled and relatable science communicator, renowned for his efforts at Broad and beyond during the COVID-19 pandemic to unpack the fast-moving research on the new virus in an accessible way and give practical advice about masking, vaccines, and other public health measures.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Challenges of viral capsids in gene therapy efficiency A widely used production method of rAAV vectors requires co-transfection of host cell lines with three plasmids, including one carrying the transgene of interest, one carrying the capsid and replication sequences, and a helper virus to circumvent the inability of rAAV to self-amplify.

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PerkinElmer

JULY 13, 2020

The complex relationship between a virus and its host is one of the hottest topics in science right now, and has been given considerable attention in recent weeks as a result of the race to understand the virus that causes COVID-19 and its potential vulnerabilities.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 15, 2022

Designed computationally and refined in the laboratory, the new protein therapies thwarted infection by interfering with the virus’ ability to enter cells. The top protein neutralized the virus with similar or greater potency than antibody treatments with Emergency Use Authorization status from the U.S.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Unsupervised use of this technique by people without medical training can lead to transmission of pathogens, according to Paul Carlson, principal investigator in the Laboratory of Mucosal Pathogens and Cellular Immunology at FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review. 1, 2019, until effective screening methods are implemented.”.

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DrugBank

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.  Vaccine Approval Process  The journey of vaccine development, from laboratory discovery to patient administration, can span up to 15 years.

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MAY 21, 2020

B38 blocks SARS-CoV-2 from binding to the ACE2 receptor (light pink) of a human cell, ACE2 is what the virus uses to infect cells. The research team, led by Yan Wu, Capital Medical University, Beijing, first isolated the pair of antibodies in the laboratory, starting with white blood cells from the patient.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In the overall patient group with detectable virus at baseline, the average daily reduction in viral load through day 7 was a 0.36 About REGN-COV2 REGN-COV2 is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies (REGN10933 and REGN10987) and was designed specifically to block infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 14, 2021

1.351 variants with a short turn-around time, ideal for retesting millions of positive samples to detect if the virus is the B.1.1.7 NovaType is already available as a Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) in Germany and will shortly be made available to the more than 50 Eurofins laboratories worldwide testing patients for COVID-19.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

HIV drug resistance is caused by changes in the genetic structure of HIV that affects the ability of drugs to block the replication of the virus. Map: WHO HIV drug resistance laboratory network. These laboratories are members of the WHO HIVResNet and function under the WHO HIV drug resistance Laboratory Operational Framework.

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The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“There remains an urgent need for SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic agents that target parts of the virus other than the spike protein that are not as likely to evolve.” Pell ABSL-3 Laboratory for Advanced Biological Research at Penn State, and discovered that eight of them had dose-dependent antiviral activities against SARS-CoV-2.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Scientists found the substance stopped SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from reproducing itself and also protected infected cells when tested in human lung cells. Few treatments currently exist for COVID-19 and the ones that do primarily focus solely on preventing the virus from replicating.

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