Suven Pharma sets sights on M&As to scale up tech expertise & order bookSuven Pharmaceuticals, backed by Advent International, is eyeing further mergers and acquisitions to bolster its capabilities and order boo...
10 Dec, 2024, 11.58 PM IST
Step closer to universal antibody solution: IISc team develops synthetic antibody that can neutralise deadly snakebite toxinScientists at the Scripps Research Institute and the Evolutionary Venomics Lab at the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institut...
22 Feb, 2024, 02.20 PM IST
Synthetic biology startup D-Nome raises $1.5 million in funding from Ankur Capital, Campus FundD-Nome's focus is to build rapid point-of-care diagnostics for human infectious diseases and other applications using genomics and syntheti...
21 Jan, 2023, 08.56 PM IST
Covid vaccine booster provides effective antibody protection against Omicron: Lancet studyA third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine increases the level of antibodies that can effectively neutralise the Omicron variant of coronavirus, ...
20 Jan, 2022, 12.50 PM IST
France approves antibody therapy for high-risk Covid casesThe independent public health body HAS Friday night announced "a greenlight for the preventive use of Evusheld... for patients with a very ...
11 Dec, 2021, 09.12 PM IST
US authorizes AstraZeneca Covid-19 treatment in some casesThe FDA warned the drug Evusheld is "not a substitute for vaccination in individuals for whom Covid-19 vaccination is recommended" and can ...
09 Dec, 2021, 07.48 AM IST
Biotech startup immunitoAI raises $1 million in seed fundingThe company provides services to pharmaceutical companies that use artificial intelligence to discover and identify antibodies. Antibody th...
09 Sep, 2021, 06.39 PM IST
Roche reports promising results from anti-Covid cocktailThe results of the Phase 3 trial showed that the combination of the antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab "reduced hospitalisation or death ...
24 Mar, 2021, 07.47 AM IST
AstraZeneca, U.S. agree 500,000 more supplies of COVID-19 antibody cocktailThe antibody therapy, which has yet to be approved by U.S. regulators, is designed to treat the disease rather than prevent it like the vac...
16 Mar, 2021, 02.30 PM IST
Pfizer vaccine appears effective against coronavirus variant found in Britain: StudyThe encouraging results from an analysis of blood of participants in trials are based on more extensive analysis than those released by the...
20 Jan, 2021, 05.07 PM IST
US FDA grants emergency use authorization to Regeneron COVID-19 antibody given to TrumpThe FDA said the monoclonal antibodies, casirivimab and imdevimab, should be administered together for the treatment of mild to moderate CO...
22 Nov, 2020, 10.13 AM IST
Human clinical trials of Gennova’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to start by the end of this yearPune-based biotechnology company Gennova Biopharmaceuticals will soon start human clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate, joining ...
20 Jul, 2020, 07.02 PM IST
Experimental vaccine may protect against HIVThe protein fragment of the vaccine candidate comes from gp120, a protein that covers HIV like a protective envelope.
29 Oct, 2017, 02.07 PM IST
- Magic bullets of DNA for low cost breast cancer detection
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) Indian scientists have designed high precision DNA probes for breast cancer detection, which they claim can bring do...
18 Jan, 2017, 05.52 PM IST
Simple blood test could detect arthritis 16 years in advanceThe blood test looks for antibodies that recognise the protein tenascin-C and could reliably identify those who will contract rheumatoid ar...
11 Dec, 2015, 01.53 PM IST
Scientist working on flu vaccine that lasts a lifetimeAs New Scientist explains, the flu virus carries big, globular "decoy" proteins on its surface to grab our immune system's attention.
26 Aug, 2015, 01.07 PM IST
New synthetic molecules mimic human antibodiesScientists have crafted the first synthetic molecules that mimic natural human antibodies and may help fight cancer, HIV and various bacter...
29 Dec, 2014, 02.40 PM IST