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Vaccine for honeybees from Dalan Animal Health

In Depth 26 Apr 2023

Vaccine for honeybees: a new hope for American foulbrood disease

In the last few years, there has been an ongoing movement to ‘save the bees’, and the U.S. biotech Dalan Animal Health is playing its part in doing just that, having created a vaccine for honeybees to protect them from the destructive and fatal effects of American foulbrood (AFB). AFB is an infectious bacterial brood […]

April 26, 2023 - 9 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

News and Trends 26 Apr 2023

aVaxziPen’s needle-free vaccine yields positive data across multiple diseases

aVaxziPen, a biotech company developing a novel needle-free vaccine delivery platform, presented data at the World Vaccine Congress (WVC) in Washington, U.S., recently. The company presented a poster entitled, “Needle-free, injectable solid dose vaccine delivery generates equivalent immune response with different antigens and animal models.” The company said immunogenicity data from four in vivo models […]

April 26, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Apr 2023

Global partners announce The Big Catch-up vaccination effort

WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with Immunization Agenda 2030 and many other global and national health partners, are joining forces to call for “The Big Catch-up,” a targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, […]

April 26, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 26 Apr 2023

Can mRNA vaccines tackle multiple diseases?

By Dr. Myriam Mendila, chief development officer of CureVac World Immunization Week is April 24-30, and it’s an important week to highlight the action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people around the world, of all ages, against infectious diseases. World Immunization Week aims to promote the use of vaccines to […]

April 26, 2023 - 9 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Opinion 26 Apr 2023

How to address declining vaccination rates in older adults

By Philip Dormitzer, global head of vaccines research and development, GSK The vaccines landscape has changed greatly over the last few years in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. New technologies have been applied at scale, innovative vaccine programs rolled out, and supply chains rearranged to help tackle global health challenges. But, while innovation has improved […]

April 26, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 26 Apr 2023

20Med Therapeutics and Touchlight collaborating on novel vaccine delivery platform

20Med Therapeutics, a company working on non-viral delivery and development of gene therapies and vaccines, and Touchlight, a biotechnology company pioneering enzymatic DNA production to enable the genetic medicine revolution, have announced that both parties will collaborate on establishing a novel vaccination platform that combines Touchlight’s rapid enzymatic doggybone DNA platform with 20Med Therapeutics’ bioresponsive […]

April 26, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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More News! 25 Apr 2023

More efficient and cost-effective mRNA vaccines developed

A new and patented method for the production of the important mRNA vaccine component pseudouridine is more efficient, sustainable and cost-effective than the previously used chemical synthesis. Researchers from the Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering at TU Graz and the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) have developed a novel method for the production […]

April 25, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 19 Apr 2023

How Vaccine Platforms Can Prepare Us for Future Pandemics

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses in our defenses. Vaccine platforms will be powerful tools for reacting faster to future pandemics. Multiple COVID-19 vaccines became available across the world to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, signaling a historic moment for vaccine development due to the speed at which they were created. And with scientists believing that […]

April 19, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Sachin Rawat

Expert Advice 18 Apr 2023

Pharmacovigilance – how to deal with the data

By Axel Hagel, practice leader, PV & RM services, IQVIA Life science data, especially safety data, is exploding. It is estimated that pharmaceutical data is increasing at a rate of 36% annually. This is more than other data-driven industries including finance (26% YoY) and manufacturing (30% YoY). This increase is in part due to digital […]

April 18, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 17 Apr 2023

Ghana becomes first country to approve University of Oxford malaria vaccine

Ghana has granted full national licensure for the University of Oxford’s R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, marking the first regulatory clearance for the vaccine for use in any country. Developed by the University of Oxford, leveraging Novavax’s adjuvant technology, and manufactured and scaled up by the Serum Institute of India PvT Ltd (SIIPL), the vaccine has been […]

April 17, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville

In Depth 14 Apr 2023

mRNA vaccines: a promising future

In 1978, nearly two decades after the discovery of messenger RNA (mRNA), the concept of a vaccine made from mRNA was materialized. Like its name suggests, mRNAs are messengers that aid in decoding genetic information from DNA to synthesize proteins, a key cellular function. Previous attempts at developing a vaccine using mRNA failed because mRNA […]

April 14, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 13 Apr 2023

Parkinson’s cure ‘inevitable’ after biomarker breakthrough

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has announced what it says is the ‘most significant breakthrough yet’ in the search for a Parkinson’s biomarker: a biological test for Parkinson’s disease. The test demonstrates high diagnostic accuracy, differentiates molecular subtypes and detects disease in individuals before cardinal movement symptoms arise. A paper on […]

April 13, 2023 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Vaccine for honeybees: a new hope for American foulbrood disease

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Global partners announce The Big Catch-up vaccination effort

Can mRNA vaccines tackle multiple diseases?

How to address declining vaccination rates in older adults

20Med Therapeutics and Touchlight collaborating on novel vaccine delivery platform

More efficient and cost-effective mRNA vaccines developed

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Ghana becomes first country to approve University of Oxford malaria vaccine

mRNA vaccines: a promising future

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