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Neutralizing antibodies isolated from COVID-19 patients may suppress virus worldpharmanews
July 23, 2020
Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have isolated antibodies from several COVID-19 patients that, to date, are among the most potent in neutralizing the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Queen’s University awarded grant to research bacterial co-infections in COVID-19 expresspharma
July 23, 2020
The grant is one of only five projects supported in the UK by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBRSC) and will last eighteen months.
Study finds fenofibrate may downgrade Covid-19 to common cold level pharmaceutical-technology
July 16, 2020
A study conducted by professor Yaakov Nahmias at Hebrew University in Israel has found that an existing cholesterol drug, fenofibrate, could ‘downgrade’ Covid-19 threat level to that of a common cold.
'Prepare now for winter COVID-19 peak', says Academy of Medical Sciences pharmatimes
July 15, 2020
Experts at the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) are warning that the UK must prepare now for a potential new wave of coronavirus infections that could be worse than the first.
Institute of Life Sciences, Odisha establishes in vitro cultures of COVID-19 expresspharma
July 14, 2020
This could help to identify drug targets, formulations for the treatment of COVID-19.
Researchers call for worldwide biosurveillance network to protect from diseases worldpharmanews
July 10, 2020
The emergence of COVID-19 is a powerful reminder of how unchecked wildlife trade can lead to the spillover spread of viruses between wildlife and humans.
WHO reviewing report urging new guidance over airborne spread of coronavirus expresspharma
July 08, 2020
How frequently the coronavirus can spread by the airborne or aerosol route - as opposed to by larger droplets in coughs and sneezes - is not clear.
New COVID-19 strain dominates global cases of virus, it is more infectious but not more severe expresspharma
July 06, 2020
The variant, named ‘D614G’, makes a small but effective change in the ‘spike’ glycoprotein that protrudes from the surface of the virus, which it uses to enter and infect human cells.
Chinese researchers warn of new virus in pigs with human pandemic risk expresspharma
July 01, 2020
A team of Chinese researchers looked at influenza viruses found in pigs from 2011 to 2018 and found a “G4” strain of H1N1 that has “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus”.
Thai trials of COVID-19 vaccine reach make-or-break stage expresspharma
June 23, 2020
Thirteen monkeys were immunized and the next two weeks will be critical in determining whether researchers can proceed with further tests.

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