Moderna said that mRNA-1273, its novel coronavirus vaccine candidate, has delivered positive interim data in a phase 1 clinical trial by eliciting neutralizing antibody titer levels in all eight initial participants across the 25 µg and 100 µg dose cohorts. The early-stage clinical trial in humans was led by the US National Institute of Allergy […]
Jennie-O Turkey Store has reopened its turkey processing plant in Melrose, Minnesota, following a voluntary suspension of operations because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The company, which is a fully-owned subsidiary of Hormel Foods, restarted phased operations on Friday with a core group of team members. The turkey processing company said that it will look to […]
Verndari, a California-based biopharma company, has started preclinical testing of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which will be administered using it microneedle array dermal patch VaxiPatch. The preclinical testing will be carried out in laboratories at the University of California in Davis (UC Davis). Verndari, which was established in 2015, is said to have developed the […]
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Fosun Pharma) has been granted the emergency use authorization (EUA) status for its COVID-19 RT-PCR detection kit from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Fosun Long March, a fully-owned subsidiary of Fosun Pharma, developed the COVID-19 RT-PCR detection kit which already has a medical device registration certificate from the China National Medical […]
Tyson Fresh Meats, the beef and pork unit of Tyson Foods, will halt production at its beef processing plant in Pasco, Washington temporarily as its employees are undergoing COVID-19 testing. Tyson Foods said that health officials in Walla Walla, Benton, and Franklin Counties will work with its subsidiary to test more than 1,400 plus team […]
Researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK have commenced the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine trial in healthy human volunteers to test the vaccine candidate’s ability in protecting against the novel coronavirus. Nearly 1,100 people, aged between 18 and 55 are taking part in the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine trial, of which half of them […]
DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate : Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada are developing a DNA-based vaccine candidate which can be given via nasal route to protect from novel coronavirus. The vaccine will be formulated to work on tissues in the nasal cavity and lower respiratory tract which will enable it to replicate within […]
Coronavirus vaccine trial : Chinese biopharma company Sinovac Biotech has secured approval to carry out a human clinical trial on an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which it had been developing since late January. The company said that its scientists have quickly wrapped up comprehensive preclinical studies in collaboration with some of the top academic research […]
Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care said that it is giving priority access to first responders and front line health care workers for evaluation, care, and testing at its 52 urgent care centers in Long Island, New York City, and Westchester during the novel coronavirus outbreak. The New York health care provider is said to have made […]
LIAISON SARS-CoV-2 IgG kit : DiaSorin said that it has completed studies at the Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, Italy to support the roll out of a new serological and high-processing volume test to detect the presence of antibodies in people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus associated with COVID-19. The Italian diagnostic company is working […]