APN01, developed based on the work of UBC’s Josef Penninger, already shown to block viral spread in SARS A University of British Columbia researcher is part of an international team working with a biotechnology company on a pilot clinical trial of a potential new treatment for patients with severe coronavirus infections in Guangzhou, China. Dr.
A new phone game from the University of Cambridge puts players in the lab coat of a young stem cell research scientist as they navigate the tough route from undergraduate to the top tiers of modern science. The scientist inside your phone is having a stressful day. Trying to finish a research paper while keeping
n Monday, when China reported 409 new cases of COVID-19 infection and 150 more deaths, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Moderna, Inc. delivered the first batch of its rapidly developed coronavirus vaccine to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). As of early Tuesday afternoon, Hong Kong time, there are 80,147 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 2,699 deaths. In
Cardiff has been recognised as a centre of excellence for precision medicine by Innovate UK, part of the national research funding agency, UK Research and Innovation. Cardiff University, along with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, NHS Wales partners and the Life Science Hub, attended the launch of the Network of Centres of Excellence of
Researchers look to messenger RNA encased in nanoparticles, DNA plasmids, molecular clamps and other approaches as they rush to design a vaccine against the new coronavirus. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported on February 20 that the novel coronavirus illness known as COVID-19 has now infected nearly 75,000 people and that the number of fatalities in
The excitement about cell and gene therapies is almost tangible within the biotech and pharma industry. Over 950 companies are actively developing advanced therapies, which are expected to make exceptional improvements to peoples’ lives in the next decade. Although hopes are high, the industry still faces a number of challenges in cell and gene therapy manufacturing, mainly
A new report from a WHO infectious disease modeling team based at Imperial College London is estimating about two-thirds of Covid-19 cases worldwide have gone undetected. The analysis suggests the global spread of the novel coronavirus is significantly greater than the current volume of confirmed cases. Source: Imperial College London “We are starting to see more
A 20-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, traveled 400 miles(675 km) north to Anyang where she infected five relatives, without ever showing signs of infection, Chinese scientists reported on Friday, offering new evidence that the virus can be spread asymptomatically. The case study, published in the Journal of the American
Immunotherapy has unleashed a revolution in care for some cancer patients. But most immunotherapies help only a small subset of patients, meaning doctors often have to resort to a trial-and-error process to determine who might actually benefit from the novel treatments. Now, scientists have developed a new metric they believe can help predict whether patients will respond
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy may keep advanced blood cancers at bay, but it can’t keep the wolf from the door, warn experts on healthcare policy and financing. For all the talk about the steep costs of CAR T-cell therapy and how to pay for it, comparatively little attention has been paid to the
