Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by researchers at UC San Diego can withstand the heat. What are their key ingredients? Plant or bacterial viruses. Vaccine technology: We are still in the early phases of developing the new refrigerator-free COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine candidates stimulated the mice to produce high […]
Neha khan, Jamia Millia Islamia What is the alpha variant? The B.1.1.7 variant is known as the Alpha variant which was first found in India and had taken thousands of lives. This coronavirus variant is more infectious than other variants because it foils the innate immune system for a while till it replicates and finds […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University All over the world research is currently focused on the development of a drug that might help cure COVID19. At the moment we do not have any treatment for COVID19. Vaccines are the only way the chain of transmission can be broken. Throughout the pandemic, various drugs […]
Shagufta Hasan, Amity University Kolkata The world has had hard knocks with COVID-19 vaccines but no drug seems to give full coverage against the virus, but now, it may hope for good news. A new drug, Molnupiravir, has been developed by Merck & Co. Inc in association with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company, focused on […]
Srilagna Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata Tata Medical and Diagnostics are in talks to team up with India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in order to carry out Moderna’s vaccine candidate in India. Tata Group’s healthcare venture is said to have started the initial discussion with Moderna Inc on partnership in launching its COVID-19 vaccine […]
SHRESTHA DUTTA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA The authorization for Pfizer’s vaccine candidate came in just 10 months since it initiated developing it, which is the fastest in the history of vaccines. Pfizer has become the main organization to seek emergency use endorsement of its immunization applicant in India after getting clearance in the UK and Bahrain. […]
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata England affirmed Pfizer COVID-19 antibody on Wednesday, hoping in front of the United States and Europe to turn into the West’s first nation to officially embrace a hit it said should reach the most susceptible individuals early next week. PM Boris Johnson promoted the medication authority’s endorsement as a worldwide […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata An interim review shared by an independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) about mRNA-1273 – a COVID-19 vaccine overseeing its Phase 3 trial suggests that the vaccine is safe and effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in adults after its interim analysis with the trial oversight group on Nov. 15, 2020. […]
Avipsha Datta, Department of Biophysics and Molecular Biology, University of Calcutta Covid-19 Vaccine- the one thing we are very much hoping for right now! Well, here is some news update that might give us a little more hope. The Drugmaker Company Moderna has announced that it is preparing to launch its potential Coronavirus vaccine mRNA-1273.Meanwhile, […]
Ayushman Kumar Banerjee With over 43 million COVID-19 cases having surfaced and more than 1.1 million deaths, researchers are relentlessly working round the clock to develop vaccines against the virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19. This has led to a race for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, and in this race, Moderna has devised […]
