RECOVERY coronavirus trial : University of Oxford researchers in the UK have initiated a coronavirus clinical trial called the Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY (RECOVERY) trial. The RECOVERY clinical trial, which has enrolled the first patients, will test the effects of potential drug treatments for COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals. The objective of the clinical […]
A new COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium has been created with support from the UK government to map how the novel coronavirus spreads and behaves by using whole-genome sequencing. The University of Liverpool is the newest member to join the consortium which is said to include the UK’s leading clinicians and scientists. The consortium backed by […]
Coronavirus vaccine trial : US biotech company Moderna has dosed the first participant in the phase 1 study of mRNA-1273, its mRNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). The phase 1 coronavirus clinical trial is being carried out under its own Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). mRNA-1273 is […]
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage said that amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, all its 157 Natural Grocers stores will be closing early at 7:35 PM to carry out sanitization. The US organic grocery store chain said that the early closing of the stores will enable the good4u Crews to restock and perform a thorough cleaning. […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific has been granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its coronavirus diagnostic test from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA authorization allows Thermo Fisher Scientific’s COVID-19 diagnostic test that can be immediately used by CLIA high-complexity laboratories in the US for the detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2, the […]
Rapid coronavirus test : Chicago-based Surgisphere Corporation claims to have launched a rapid diagnostic tool for novel coronavirus. The healthcare data analytics and medical education company claims to have tapped into its global research network and advanced machine learning to create an intelligent tool that uses only three common laboratory tests to identify patients who are […]
Coronavirus testing center in New York : New York health care provider Northwell Health Labs (Northwell Labs) has started manual testing of novel coronavirus samples (COVID-19 samples) at its 100,000-square-foot diagnostic facility in Lake Success having secured state and federal authorization. The diagnostic lab was visited by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, which paved the […]
COVID-19 treatment : The Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences has entered into a collaboration with Canadian biotech company Cyclica for discovering antiviral drug candidates for COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) and for exploring opportunities for designing multi-targeted antiviral compounds. According to the partners, new drug development efforts to tackle the prevailing pandemic of […]
Novaerus has partnered with seven distributors across China, in an effort to bring its portable air disinfection units in the country amid the ongoing Novel Coronavirus crisis. The Irish medical-grade clean air solutions provider will provide its clean air technology to healthcare facilities across the Chinese regions of Hubei, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou City, and Zhejiang […]
Novel coronavirus diagnostic test : Co-Diagnostics, a US molecular diagnostics company, said that its research use only (RUO) CoPrimer test for the 2019-nCoV coronavirus is ready for sale to laboratories, hospitals, and institutions. To know about coronavirus symptoms in humans, check here. The molecular diagnostics company claims to have taken two weeks for the design, […]