Experts suggest updating vaccines for new variants. How does it work & what are the challenges?
It is easier to update certain vaccine platforms than others, say experts
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman’s work on mRNA vaccines wins Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023
Such vaccines have saved millions of lives and prevented severe disease in many more, allowing societies to open and return to normal conditions
Nobel Prize 2023: Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman awarded for work that led to effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Kariko and Weissman eliminated critical obstacles on the way to clinical applications of mRNA, paving the way for speedy development of mRNA …
Self-sufficient Africa: Rwanda gets continent’s first unit for mRNA vaccine production
Containers of mRNA mobile factories called Biontainers to boost African vaccine production
We’re on the hunt for novel ways to assess the risk of type 2 diabetes
How well can miRNA expression analysis perform in identifying prediabetes and full-blown diabetes?
Moderna strikes with a new lawsuit
Moderna is trying to be gatekeeper for the mRNA platform for future drug development, raising monopolistic fears
Rwanda and Senegal will host Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine plants: What’s known so far
Only Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Africa have varying capabilities to produce and fill or finish vaccines
Katalin Karikó and the innovation issue
Rockstar scientist Kariko’s obsessive research of mRNA has prompted NYT to say she ‘helped shield the world from the coronavirus&…
What are India’s options for a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Hyderabad-based Biological E’s Corbevax and SII’s Covovax, both of which are protein-based vaccines, are India’s best bet for a …
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine becomes first to get emergency authorisation
UK government gives nod on basis of interim results, vaccine to be made available by next week
Bharat Biotech COVID-19 vaccine gets govt panel nod for emergency use: Experts express concern
Recommendation to drug controller for emergency approval to India’s indigenous product against COVID-19
Continued surveillance can help tweak vaccines for COVID-19 variants
Need to seamlessly connect vaccine development pipelines to variant identification and testing so that time can be saved while updating vaccines …
COVID-19 vaccines: How Pfizer and Moderna’s 95% effective mRNA shots work
Should we expect the pandemic to be over once a vaccine is available for public use? Not exactly. A vaccine will not be perfect, and it takes …
As told to Parliament (December 21, 2022): 42.1 million hospital admissions under PMJAY
The admissions were worth Rs 49,468.6 crore and helped reduce out-of-pocket health expenditure
FAQ on COVID-19 subvariant XBB.1.5: Why is it nicknamed ‘Kraken’?
Answers to questions like what is it, where is it prevalent and how does it differ from Omicron