The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Panacea Biotec have launched the first phase three clinical trial for an indigenous dengu...

With a looming threat of Covid-19 infection again to grab the country, the year 2022 has come to an end. After China and some other nations...

Indian diagnostic companies had experience in developing test assays for dengue, HIV, TB and H1N1, but with Covid-19 the delay in getting h...

Can India pull it off? Anything can be pulled off if the country has the political will to do so, it might seem like a costly affair but co...

Indian diagnostic companies had experience in developing test assays for dengue, HIV, TB and H1N1, but with Covid-19 the delay in getting h...

Possibly, environmental variations across latitudes might be the driving force for humans to evolve particularly for the immunological gene...

While Kerala has responded with alacrity to the Nipah outbreak, are hospital protocols followed across the country?

Phase 3 trials are the last phase of clinical trials that a company conducts before it receives approval to market the drug here.

Under its latest Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), ICMR will be focussed on research and development of vaccines combatting various infect...

Under the agreement, Sun Pharma will provide drug molecules to NIV for testing against zika, chikungunya and dengue in model systems, the c...

While details of the structure are yet to be chalked out, the group has so far considered prioritising infectious diseases like dengue and ...

The ICGEB plans a larger vaccine trial on monkeys in America; the full-fledged human trial after that could cost more than Rs 100 crore.

The decision of the apex committee is expected to delay the entry of the vaccine, which has been approved in Mexico, the Philippines and Br...

To deal with Zika, Swaminathan said, testing of people is being done in the country at present, besides looking at the issue of developing ...

Indian scientists had even stored a vial of the pathogen, ICMR Director-General Soumya Swaminathan said.

Interestingly, India was the first country in the world that set up a separate Department of Biotechnology to nurture this sector three dec...

The study showed that 87% of Indian adults in trial were positive to dengue at enrolment, confirming the significant endemic nature of the ...