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EU says not enough evidence to warrant fourth COVID jabs

It is too early to consider widespread use of a second COVID-19 vaccine booster dose, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and EMA's COVID-19 task forc

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Why VCs fell in love with pharma R&D in 2021

For many years, those inside the pharma industry have been telling the same old story about innovation: pharma is big, slow, and risk averse. Start-ups move fast and break things.

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NIH funds study to evaluate long-term COVID in children

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding a nationwide study in the US to support research on long-COVID, chronic COVID, or as it's scientifically known, post-acute sequelae of SAR

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Seeing double: the rise of digital twins in life sciences

Little more than a decade ago, the concept of digital twins in life science research may have sounded more like science fiction than a viable model for research and development (R&D).

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CureVac and GSK try again with COVID-19 vaccine

CureVac and GlaxoSmithKline's first attempt to develop a COVID-19 vaccine was a salutary reminder of the pitfalls in drug development, as the mRNA shot crashed and burned in a clinical tria

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