Articles for Human Testing

Human testing of first Nipah virus vaccine begins
11 months, 1 week ago

Human testing of first Nipah virus vaccine begins

India Today  

After successful preclinical trials of a vaccine candidate, called ChAdOx1 NiV, for the brain-swelling Nipah virus, it has entered the human testing phase. Conducted by the University of Oxford with 52 participants, the human trial will assess safety and immune response in individuals aged 18 to 55, a spokesperson for the University's Pandemic Sciences Institute told news agency Reuters. While …

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Anthropologist Finds Real Human Skull While Shopping At US Antique Store
1 year, 1 month ago

Anthropologist Finds Real Human Skull While Shopping At US Antique Store

News 18  

During Halloween, it’s common to find decorative skulls and bones which are typically made in factories. Soon after receiving the complaint, Police officials from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office visited the thrift shop and took the human skull for further investigation. The skull was found at Paradise Vintage Market on North Cleveland Avenue in North Fort Myers, Florida, Newsweek reported …

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Amazon starts testing ‘robot workers’ for warehouses, says it wants to ‘free up staff’
1 year, 2 months ago

Amazon starts testing ‘robot workers’ for warehouses, says it wants to ‘free up staff’

Firstpost  

Amazon may be planning to replace human workers across their warehouses and fulfilment centres with humanoid robots. While Amazon’s move towards automation has raised concerns from labour unions, the company insists that its robotic systems have created “hundreds of thousands of new jobs” within its operations, including 700 different job categories that previously did not exist. Amazon’s efforts to automate …

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India takes first step to remove animals from drug-testing process
1 year, 5 months ago

India takes first step to remove animals from drug-testing process

The Hindu  

An amendment to the New Drugs and Clinical Trial Rules, recently passed by the Government of India, aims to replace the use of animals in research, especially in drug testing. The amendment authorises researchers to instead use non-animal and human-relevant methods, including technologies like 3D organoids, organs-on-chip, and advanced computational methods, to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs. …

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Death knell for Neuralink? US regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips on humans
1 year, 9 months ago

Death knell for Neuralink? US regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips on humans

Firstpost  

When Elon Musk demonstrated the BCI or brain-computer interface that his neural computing startup, Neuralink was working on, it got a lot of press. Also read: Elon Musk’s Neuralink startup releases clip of a monkey playing video game called Pong with its brain Such FDA rejections do not necessarily imply that a business will fail to obtain human-testing clearance from …

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No Laboratory Confirmed Human Case of Avian Influenza Reported in Country So Far: MoS Health
3 years, 10 months ago

No Laboratory Confirmed Human Case of Avian Influenza Reported in Country So Far: MoS Health

News 18  

There are no laboratory confirmed human cases of avian influenza reported in the country till date, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told the Lok Sabha on Friday. The National Institute of High Security Animal Disease, Bhopal is conducting laboratory testing for bird flu in meat products in the country, Choubey said in a written reply. Two referral laboratories …

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Companies testing vaccines pledge safety, high standards
4 years, 3 months ago

Companies testing vaccines pledge safety, high standards

Associated Press  

The top executives of nine drugmakers likely to produce the first vaccines against the new coronavirus signed an unprecedented pledge meant to boost public confidence in any approved vaccines. The companies said they will seek approval or authorization for emergency use only after they have confirmed the vaccines work and are safe through a large, final round of human testing. …

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