Healthcare startups showcase innovation, collaboration at Bengaluru Tech Summit 2024The panel included several young entrepreneurs in the healthcare industry, sharing their perspectives on a range of topics. They discussed ...
20 Nov, 2024, 07.48 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
New research discovers blood substances vital for identifying long Covid patientsScientists have identified blood biomarkers for long Covid that could accurately distinguish patients with the disease. These biomarkers in...
27 Sep, 2023, 06.43 PM IST
Study reveals hyperimmune intravenous immunoglobulin doesn't help COVID-19 patientsThe combination of remdesivir plus a highly concentrated solution of antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2 is not more effective than remde...
28 Jan, 2022, 11.59 AM IST
Will an Omicron-specific vaccine help control COVID? There's one key problemA vaccine targeting Omicron will increase immunity to the variant on both an individual and population level.
25 Jan, 2022, 10.44 AM IST
Countries like India need better vaccines with broader coverage, says top Cambridge scientistRavindra Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, is renowned...
11 Jan, 2022, 06.50 AM IST
New COVID-19 testing method gives results in one second, scientists sayThis can greatly reduce the cost of testing, the researchers said. The technology can not only detect COVID-19 but can also be applied to o...
20 May, 2021, 04.43 PM IST
Blood plasma reduces risk of severe COVID-19 if given earlyThey arrive nearly five months after the Food and Drug Administration, under pressure from President Donald Trump, issued the therapy an em...
07 Jan, 2021, 10.24 AM IST
New, accurate & reliable novel Covid-19 antibody test gives results in 20 minutesAntibodies are proteins made by the immune system that recognise and bind to virus antigens.
11 Dec, 2020, 12.10 PM IST
New rapid Covid tests on the horizon as novel method to detect single coronavirus particles emergesThe work may lead to fast and accurate screening tests for diseases like COVID-19 and influenza.
30 Nov, 2020, 05.38 PM IST
COVID-19: Scientists develop novel method to detect single virus particlesIn the new method, the scientists said a layer of the compound silicon nitride just 50 nanometres (nm) thick has tiny nanopores added. The ...
28 Nov, 2020, 03.20 PM IST
In COVID-19 vaccine race, Hungarian village firm takes global roleBiologist Noemi Lukacs, 71, retired to Szirak, her birth village, to establish English & Scientific Consulting (SciCons) and manufacture a ...
15 Nov, 2020, 04.43 PM IST
No country for Chinese vaccine: China's big drug maker not able to conduct overseas trialsIf history is any guide, domestic use-only could be a path for China: An Ebola vaccine, also jointly developed by CanSino and the military ...
30 Jul, 2020, 04.35 PM IST
Moderna phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trial could still begin in JulyThe Moderna vaccine candidate is an RNA-based vaccine designed to help the body produce antibodies that protect against Covid-19.
03 Jul, 2020, 06.43 PM IST
View: Combining sampling and testing can be most effective to get the economy back on trackGovernments can combine strategies to conduct randomised testing to plan exit out of lockdown.
24 Apr, 2020, 06.17 AM IST
Studying the structure of coronavirus will help discovery of vaccineStudying the structure of the coronavirus will help the discovery of a vaccine, leading national and international therapeutics, who are tr...
17 Apr, 2020, 11.00 AM IST
New antibody weapons against Marburg virus foundThe new antibodies identify and neutralise Marburg virus which has a mortality rate of up to 90 per cent.
30 Jun, 2015, 11.27 AM IST