Chinese vaccine makers sign COVAX agreementsGavi, the vaccine partnership playing a leading role in COVAX, announced that it would buy 110 million doses from Sinopharm and Sinovac bet...
13 Jul, 2021, 07.49 AM IST
Antibodies triggered by Chinese COVID-19 shots less effective on Delta variant: ResearcherFive out of the seven domestically developed vaccines in China's mass inoculation scheme are inactivated vaccines. These include shots from...
25 Jun, 2021, 10.46 AM IST
Covaxin phase 3 full trial data to be made public in July: Bharat BiotechThe indigenous whole virion inactivated SARS-Cov-2 virus vaccine company has also said that Covaxin will even undergo the phase 4 trials to...
09 Jun, 2021, 07.25 PM IST
Bharat Biotech ramps up Covaxin production capacity to 700 mn doses per annumThe technology transfer process is well underway and IIL has the capabilities and expertise to manufacture inactivated viral vaccines at co...
20 Apr, 2021, 04.54 PM IST
New COVID vaccine shows 'strong immune response' in early UK trialsUK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that the promising Phase I and II results mean that the Valneva vaccine, being developed at Livingsto...
06 Apr, 2021, 09.16 PM IST
AIIMS New Delhi advertises for Phase-III clinical trial of Covaxin"AIIMS, New Delhi is a site for COVAXIN Phase III clinical trial. This is a whole-virion inactivated vaccine co-sponsored by Indian Council...
24 Dec, 2020, 04.16 PM IST
Chinese province to give COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable groups, general public in 2021: Local mediaThe southwestern province could also begin inoculating the general public after the Lunar New Year in mid-February, said the Sichuan Daily,...
08 Dec, 2020, 06.27 PM IST
New study suggests some mouthwashes, oral rinses may help reduce Covid-19 spreadThe findings indicate that some of these products might help in reducing the viral load.
21 Oct, 2020, 06.33 PM IST
Muse Nanobots launches nanotech coating for textiles to inactivate coronavirusMuse Nanobots conducted a study with the U.S.-based Situ Biosciences, an independent product test laboratory in Chicago, to understand the ...
31 Aug, 2020, 11.16 PM IST
China approves emergency usage of COVID-19 vaccines developed by some domestic cos: OfficialAn emergency use authorisation, which is based on Chinese vaccine management law, allows unapproved vaccine candidates to be used among peo...
23 Aug, 2020, 10.40 PM IST
ICMR invites cos to develop its anti-serum against CovidAntiserum is a blood serum that contains antibodies against a virus that can be injected to prevent or treat an infection. Some common exam...
26 Jun, 2020, 07.20 AM IST
IIT Madras-incubated startup comes up with coating that neutralises coronavirusThe startup’s pilot machine can coat textiles of length up to 100 metres within a few minutes – according to them, it can deployed immediat...
04 May, 2020, 04.31 PM IST
Novel patch can better deliver polio vaccines: StudyKendall said,"ease of administration, coupled with dose reduction observed in this study suggests that the Nanopatch could facilitate inexp...
09 Oct, 2017, 01.39 PM IST
Safer polio vaccine strains for post-eradication eraScientists have developed a new generation of polio vaccine strains that are both effective and unable to cause the disease in case of an a...
01 Jan, 2016, 04.21 PM IST
Sanofi Pasteur launches injectable inactivated polio vaccineSanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, today announced launch of ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).
04 Dec, 2015, 08.03 PM IST
Government proposes to introduce IPV in its polio programmeIPV is to be given as an additional dose at 14th week along with DPT3 and Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV3), Health Minister JP Nadda said.
08 May, 2015, 04.58 PM IST
Apple inactivates software directing Chinese users to brothelsChinese version of the Apple iPhone's new voice-activated assistant "Siri" was inactivated today after complaints that the controversial se...
29 Oct, 2012, 09.15 PM IST