A vaccine to prevent all Covid is within reach. Here’s how to grab itWhat exactly is a pan-coronavirus vaccine? The term has become a catchall for both vaccines that could protect against any current and futu...
21 Jan, 2022, 10.09 AM IST
Wall Street closes higher with Nasdaq boosted by tech rallyThe Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 492.4 points, or 1.4%, to 35,719.43, the S&P 500 gained 95.08 points, or 2.07%, to 4,686.75 and the N...
08 Dec, 2021, 08.38 AM IST
Asian shares catch global equities rally, but oil slipsAsian shares extended gains on Wednesday, continuing a global relief rally as markets found positive news in early reports about the potent...
08 Dec, 2021, 08.00 AM IST
Oil edge lower as investors try to assess Omicron's full impactBrent crude futures dropped 25 cents, or 0.3%, to $75.19 a barrel at 0129 GMT, after settling 3.2% higher on Tuesday. U.S. West Texas Inter...
08 Dec, 2021, 07.38 AM IST
Aussie buoyant, dollar listless as Omicron optimism lifts risk assetsThe Australian dollar hit its strongest level in a week on Wednesday amid a pick-up in risk appetite on signs Omicron may be less severe th...
08 Dec, 2021, 07.33 AM IST
Omicron more transmissible than Delta: UK PM Boris Johnson to ministersJohnson's official Number 10 Downing Street spokesperson told reporters in an account of the Cabinet meeting that Johnson reiterated it was...
08 Dec, 2021, 12.06 AM IST
New data shows GSK-Vir drug works against all Omicron mutationsThe data, yet to be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, shows that the companies' treatment, sotrovimab, is effective against all...
07 Dec, 2021, 10.34 PM IST
UK shares slide as inflation, Omicron risks growDrugmaker GlaxoSmithKline added 0.7% after a pre-clinical analysis of the antibody-based COVID-19 therapy it is developing with U.S. partne...
02 Dec, 2021, 02.18 PM IST
GSK says antibody drug 'Sotrovimab' works against OmicronUK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved sotrovimab, a Covid-19 treatment which has been developed by GSK and ...
02 Dec, 2021, 01.07 PM IST
AstraZeneca files for US approval of drug to prevent COVID-19The treatment, an antibody therapy called AZD7442, had reduced the risk of people developing any COVID-19 symptoms by 77% in a late-stage t...
05 Oct, 2021, 01.41 PM IST
AstraZeneca says antibody treatment failed in preventing COVID-19 in exposed patientsThe company said the participants in the trial were unvaccinated adults older than 18 years with confirmed exposure to a person with the co...
15 Jun, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
India's Zydus Cadila seeks human trial approval for COVID-19 antibody cocktailRegeneron and Roche's antibody cocktail has also received emergency use approval in India, and will be distributed by drugmaker Cipla. The ...
27 May, 2021, 10.00 AM IST
GSK, Vir Biotech to expand COVID-19 research partnership for other diseasesAs a part of the deal to research and develop monoclonal antibody treatments for influenza and other respiratory illnesses, GSK will make a...
17 Feb, 2021, 06.47 PM IST
View: Why vaccines alone would not be enough to beat Covid-19Vaccines can’t change the course of the pandemic overnight, and may not be able to entirely stop the spread of the virus. It will take mont...
09 Dec, 2020, 09.47 AM IST
Next best thing to vaccine: Companies testing antibody drugs to treat, prevent Covid-19Antibodies are proteins the body makes when an infection occurs; they attach to a virus and help it be eliminated. Vaccines work by trickin...
12 Aug, 2020, 08.11 PM IST
What are antibody therapies and who is developing them for COVID-19?More recently, scientists have developed treatments called monoclonal antibodies -- antibodies that can be isolated and manufactured in lar...
09 Jun, 2020, 12.56 PM IST
Entertainment unlimited in Mumbai a day before I-DayKick start the I-Day weekend with a special selection of short films made in the first two decades after independence, like Good Manners, S...
14 Aug, 2014, 12.45 PM IST