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ZyCoV-D receives EUA for world’s 1st Plasmid DNA vaccine for COVID-19

Zydus Cadila on Friday announced that it has received Emergency Use Authorisation from the Drug Controller General of India for ZyCoV-D - the world's first...

August 23, 2021 | News

HDT Bio ,Korea’s Quratis to Co-Develop COVID-19 Vaccine in Asia

HDT Bio Corp., a developer of immunotherapies for oncology and infectious diseases, announced today an agreement with Korean biotech Quratis Inc. to co-dev...

August 18, 2021 | News

SpeeDx Expand SARS-CoV-2 Variant Analysis Pipeline

PlexPrime® SARS-CoV-2 P681R Delta is a single well research mix designed to detect the P681R spike mutation of SARS-CoV-2 found in B.1.617.2 (Delta) VO...

August 18, 2021 | News

New Capacity Helps Eliminate Bottleneck for COVID-19 Vaccines

Biotage is one of the few companies offering a complete solution and ready to go off-the-shelf products for the purification of large-scale lipi...

August 16, 2021 | News

India's first nasal vaccine for COVID-19 receives nod for Phase 2, 3 trial

India's first nasal vaccine, developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Department of Biotechnology and its PSU, the Biotechnology Industry Rese...

August 16, 2021 | News

Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration Grants Provisional Registration for Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine

Delivery to begin in the second half of September -Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics...

August 11, 2021 | News

Thermo Fisher Scientific Updates Customizable TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Panel to Detect Delta and Lambda Variants

The panel enables laboratories to track known mutations by selecting from a menu of over 50 assays designed to screen for different variants. The TaqMan SA...

August 10, 2021 | News

New Zealand approved YishengBio COVID-19 vaccine trials

YishengBio is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on discovery, development, manufacturing and commercialization of new generations of vaccines and therap...

August 10, 2021 | News

J&J’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine approved for emergency use in India

In a tweet, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, now India has five Emergency Use Authorization vaccines. He added that this will further boost the coun...

August 09, 2021 | News

BD and CerTest Biotec Announce CE Mark for Molecular Test to Detect, Identify Certain SARS-CoV-2 Variants

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, and CerTest Biotec, today announced the CE mark for a molecular test...

August 06, 2021 | News

Over half a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in WHO South-East Asia Region as countries scale up vaccination efforts

“Countries across the Region are making unprecedented efforts to reach more and more people with life-saving COVID-19 vaccines demonstrating their co...