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News and Trends 2 Nov 2022

The Native Antigen Company expands range of Omicron antigens to include BA.5 variant

The Native Antigen Company today (November 2) announced the commercial launch of its latest SARS-CoV-2 antigens for the newly designated Omicron BA.5 variant. The company, part of LGC Clinical Diagnostics, is a supplier of reagents enabling research into vaccines and diagnostics for emerging endemic infectious diseases. The new range of RBD (receptor binding domain) antigens […]

November 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 2 Nov 2022

AELIX Therapeutics publishes positive data on its HIV vaccine

Positive results from a clinical study into biotech company, AELIX’ Therapeutics’, HIV vaccine have been published in Nature Medicine journal. The announcement came today (November 2) from the Spanish-based company that specializes in developing immunotherapies for HIV infection. Christian Brander, co-founder and chief scientific officer at AELIX, said: “We are excited to have published the […]

November 2, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 31 Oct 2022

Researchers develop efficient nanovaccine delivery system boosting cellular immunity

A research group has successfully developed a new nanovaccine delivery system, to strongly activate cellular immunity, using one-tenth of the amount of antigen that was previously required. Led by Eiji Yuba, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan, the group has been developing been developing the […]

October 31, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Interview 28 Oct 2022

Migraines: a new vaccine frontier beyond infectious diseases

By bringing the efficiency and affordability of vaccines to chronic diseases such as migraines, U.S. company Vaxxinity aims to open a new frontier for vaccines in an effort to reach all patient populations, regardless of location or income. Migraine causes severe headaches that are characterized by throbbing pain and associated symptoms such as sensitivity to […]

October 28, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

News and Trends 18 Oct 2022

Emergex develops vaccine for smallpox and monkeypox

Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited has formulated and confirmed the synthesis and assembly of a CD8+ T cell adaptive vaccine for smallpox and monkeypox, made up predominantly of early “eclipse phase” antigens. The monkeypox virus is part of the same family of double-stranded DNA viruses (Poxviridae) as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox; they share […]

October 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Oct 2022

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine data supports homologous and heterologous boosting

Data in from adults and adolescents aged 12-17 collected in a phase 3 trial of a prototype Novavax COVID-19 vaccine showed it had achieved its pre-specified immunologic endpoint. Study 307 met its primary endpoint, showing three lots of the vaccine tested as a heterologous booster induced consistent immune responses in previously vaccinated adults aged 18-49. […]

October 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 12 Oct 2022

Emergex looks to microneedle patches with Zosano Pharma acquisition

Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited has acquired the assets of California-based company Zosano Pharma Corporation. Emergex is a clinical stage biotechnology company addressing major global infectious diseases through the development of fully synthetic CD8+ T cell Adaptive Vaccines. The assets acquired include intellectual property, license agreements, and manufacturing equipment. They also include Zosano’s proprietary microneedle array […]

October 12, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 5 Oct 2022

Intravacc to develop intranasal gonorrhea vaccine with $14.6M NIH/NIAID contract

Intravacc has been awarded a contract with base and options that may total US$14.6 million for the development of a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). The contract has been awarded by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Gonorrhea is a sexually […]

October 5, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 5 Oct 2022

CanSinoBIO to present latest data on inhaled COVID vaccine

CanSino Biologics Inc. will be presenting clinical trial data for the recombinant COVID-19 vaccine (adenovirus type 5 vector) for inhalation (with the trade name Convidecia Air) at World Vaccine Congress (WVC) Europe to be held October 11 to 14, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Jean-Denis Shu, vice president for medical affairs of CanSino Biologics will be […]

October 5, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 4 Oct 2022

Lumen Bioscience data show needle free spirulina-produced vaccination protects against malaria

Lumen Bioscience has published data demonstrating a needle-free, spirulina-produced recombinant vaccine that protects against malaria. The research, conducted in collaboration with the University of Washington, was published in the peer-reviewed journal, Nature Partner Journals (NPJ) Vaccines. Lumen Bioscience pioneered genetic engineering methods to highly express bioactive proteins in spirulina. The published research details how this […]

October 4, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

Canada injecting $11.1M into mRNA vaccine technology at University of British Columbia

The Canadian government is providing more than C$11.1 million (US$8.1 million) for two new mRNA vaccine projects at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The funding, through the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada (PacifiCan), is for UBC to enhance the delivery and efficacy of mRNA vaccines. PacifiCan is investing the money through its Regional […]

October 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Startup Scout 29 Sep 2022

Baseimmune makes future-proof vaccines with AI

Baseimmune is using artificial intelligence (AI) to design vaccines that can protect against future variants of infectious diseases including COVID-19 and malaria. Big data has taken off in the last decade, with dramatic improvements in bioinformatics, data science and AI. These advances allow researchers to store and handle more and more data generated by research […]

September 29, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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The Native Antigen Company expands range of Omicron antigens to include BA.5 variant

AELIX Therapeutics publishes positive data on its HIV vaccine

Researchers develop efficient nanovaccine delivery system boosting cellular immunity

Migraines: a new vaccine frontier beyond infectious diseases

Emergex develops vaccine for smallpox and monkeypox

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine data supports homologous and heterologous boosting

Emergex looks to microneedle patches with Zosano Pharma acquisition

Intravacc to develop intranasal gonorrhea vaccine with $14.6M NIH/NIAID contract

CanSinoBIO to present latest data on inhaled COVID vaccine

Lumen Bioscience data show needle free spirulina-produced vaccination protects against malaria

Canada injecting $11.1M into mRNA vaccine technology at University of British Columbia

Baseimmune makes future-proof vaccines with AI

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