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Healthcare
It’s Time to Heal: 16 Trends Driving the Future of Bio and Healthcare
For too long, we’ve confused the status quo for stasis in healthcare. But then came 2020. Here are the 16 biggest trends driving us into the future of biology, medicine, and healthcare.
Could New COVID Variants Undermine Vaccines? Labs Scramble to Find Out
Researchers race to determine why variants identified in Britain and South Africa spread so quickly and whether they’ll compromise vaccines
Biotech Is Radiant, In a Dark Moment
The virus, at the start of a New Year, has arrived on all seven continents. Even Antarctica. An estimated 2 million people have died worldwide from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and that’s surely ...
Two Companies Launch with Diverse Approaches for Improving Cancer Treatments
Mana Therapeutics takes aim at solid tumors with allogenic cell therapies and Aulos Bioscience sees a new path for IL-2 monoclonal antibodies.
How Krishna Ella built Bharat Biotech and why the company is at a tipping point
Bharat Biotechs Covaxin is Indias first indigenous coronavirus vaccine. The DCGIs approval of Covaxin, despite it not having phase-3 clinical trial efficacy and safety data, stunned several ...
COVID-19 vaccine and cancer – latest updates
Recently, news of a COVID-19 vaccine has dominated headlines. We've summarised all the information that is out there, with rolling updates, in our new vaccine blog post.
What you need to know about Bharat Biotech’s intranasal COVID-19 vaccine 'BBV154'
Bharat Biotech says its intranasal vaccine candidate against COVID-19 has demonstrated unprecedented levels of protection in mice studies.
Beyond the headlines lie unsung heroes
Every day (link is external), month after month. Responding quickly, my colleagues arranged rides to hospitals for cancer patients to receive treatment. In the Philippines, …