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News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

Nuance Pharma’s RSV vaccine cleared for trial in China

Nuance Pharma says China’s Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) has approved its investigational new drug (IND) application supporting its pivotal phase III clinical trial of MVA-BN RSV vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults in China. MVA-BN RSV is being developed for the prevention of RSV in older adults. The vaccine incorporates five distinct RSV […]

November 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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ChromaTwist lands second round of funding for fluorescent dyes for flow cytometry market

ChromaTwist Ltd, a University of Birmingham spinout, has secured £487,000 ($573,000) of equity investment to develop its new class of fluorescent dyes for the flow cytometry reagent market. Existing investors, Angel from angelgroups and the University of Birmingham brought in funds which will allow ChromaTwist to continue product development with industry partners and enable rapid […]

November 14, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 10 Nov 2022

Sanofi and GSK Covid-19 booster vaccine approved by European Commission

Sanofi and GSK’s Covid booster vaccine has been approved in Europe. After the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion for VidPrevtyn Beta, the vaccine was approved by the European Commission, as a booster for the prevention of Covid-19 in adults 18 years of age and older. […]

November 10, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Nov 2022

Does covid vaccination boost cancer treatment?

Patients with nasopharyngeal cancer are often treated with drugs that activate their immune system against the tumor. It was feared that vaccination against Covid-19 could reduce the success of cancer treatment or cause severe side effects. However, a recent study by the universities of Bonn, Germany, and Shanxi, China, say this isn’t the case. According […]

November 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 4 Nov 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 21: CanSinoBIO, HTID, Longevity Science Foundation

This week, we have three interviews, and four guests. We chat with Pierre Corneille VP of the HTFC, which is responsible for HealthTech Innovation Days; Sergey Jakimov, co-founder and managing partner of LongeVC and the Longevity Science Foundation’s CEO Lisa Ireland; and Pierre Morgon, executive vice president of CanSinoBIO. We also have our weekly contribution […]

November 4, 2022

News and Trends 3 Nov 2022

Senescent cells as vaccines against cancer?

Cancer cells have a series of features that allow the immune system to identify and attack them. However, these same cells create an environment that blocks immune cells and protects the tumor. This means immune cells cannot reach the cancer cells to remove them. The scientific community has been working to increase the effectiveness of […]

November 3, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Impacting vaccine development: COVID-19 and its implications for the future of vaccines

The development of COVID-19 vaccines was an unprecedented achievement at a time of urgent medical need. We explore the novel technology platforms that went into their development and consider their long-term impact on vaccine research. Ever since the first vaccine against smallpox in the late 1700s, vaccines have gained a reputation as a critical tool […]

November 3, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

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

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Nuance Pharma’s RSV vaccine cleared for trial in China

ChromaTwist lands second round of funding for fluorescent dyes for flow cytometry market

Sanofi and GSK Covid-19 booster vaccine approved by European Commission

Does covid vaccination boost cancer treatment?

Beyond Biotech podcast 21: CanSinoBIO, HTID, Longevity Science Foundation

Senescent cells as vaccines against cancer?

Impacting vaccine development: COVID-19 and its implications for the future of vaccines

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

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