Focus on Infectious Disease
  • Saved

Conditional Approval for Serum, Bharat Bio COVID-19 Vaccines In India Amid Uproar

Conditional Approval for Serum, Bharat Bio COVID-19 Vaccines In India Amid Uproar

Source : 'Scrip Intelligence'

In a move indicative of the unusual times that the world finds itself in due to COVID-19, India granted conditional accelerated approvals to two vaccines, one of them still in...

  • Saved

Moderna Increases Minimum Supply Of Coronavirus Vaccine Doses For 2021

Moderna Increases Minimum Supply Of Coronavirus Vaccine Doses For 2021

Source : 'Scrip Intelligence'

Amid concerns about the rollout of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in the US, one of the companies that has received an emergency use authorization, Moderna, Inc., has raised the...

  • Saved

FDA Warns Of False Negatives With Curative’s COVID-19 Test

FDA Warns Of False Negatives With Curative’s COVID-19 Test

Source : Medtech Insight

One of the first COVID-19 tests to gain emergency use authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration could be giving false-negative results if not used properly, the agency...

  • Saved

COVID Advocacy Exchange Platform Unites Patients, Industry And Experts

COVID Advocacy Exchange Platform Unites Patients, Industry And Experts

Source : IN VIVO

The spread of COVID-19 across the globe in early spring – and the resulting cancellation of in-person meetings and conferences – stifled the connection between bioharma companies and the global...

  • Saved
Evolution of enhanced innate immune evasion by SARS-CoV-2 - Nature

Evolution of enhanced innate immune evasion by SARS-CoV-2 - Nature

Source : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04352-y

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) suggests viral adaptation to enhance human-to-human transmission1,2. Although much effort has focused on characterisation of spike changes in VOCs, mutations outside spike likely...

We propose that more effective innate immune suppression, through enhanced expression of specific viral antagonist proteins, increases the likelihood of successful Alpha transmission, and may increase in vivo replication and duration of infection4. The importance of mutations outside Spike in adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 to humans is underscored...