Medicago has started dosing healthy volunteers in the first human trial of its candidate vaccine for COVID-19, a few days after partnering with GlaxoSmithKline on the project.<
Merck & Co’s CEO Kenneth Frazier has warned that the many COVID-19 vaccines under development are not guaranteed to work, adding that it may be too optimistic to expect one to be approv
Biogen and Eisai have begun a new phase 3 study testing an Alzheimer’s antibody drug aimed at patients without symptoms but with elevated levels of amyloid in their brains, the protein aggr
Sewage monitoring is being trialled as a way to spot new outbreaks of coronavirus, and three UK companies have now joined forces to try to develop a probe for this purpose.
Two of Pfizer and BioNTech’s potential COVID-19 vaccines have been granted Fast Track status by the FDA, a process designed to hasten their development and review.
Lockdown is easing across the UK but life is far from the pre-coronavirus “normal” in the absence of a vaccine that has been proven to be safe and effective.