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New push for mRNA bird flu vaccine development: WHO
4 months, 3 weeks ago

New push for mRNA bird flu vaccine development: WHO

The Hindu  

The World Health Organisation announced Monday, July 29, 2024, a new project to accelerate the development in poorer countries, of vaccines for human bird flu infections, using cutting-edge messenger RNA technology. Vaccine equity Swiftly developed mRNA Covid vaccines were game-changers during the pandemic, but they also exposed glaring global vaccine inequity and demands for a fairer distribution amid efforts to …

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Explainer: Pharma Giant Moderna's Allegations Against Pfizer And BioNTech For Copyright Infringement
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Explainer: Pharma Giant Moderna's Allegations Against Pfizer And BioNTech For Copyright Infringement

Live Law  

The pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and BioNTech are embroiled in a high-stakes lawsuit filed by their rival, Moderna, over the intellectual property rights central to the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Specifically, Moderna claims that Pfizer and BioNTech violated two of its mRNA patents, which it asserts are foundational to the innovative approach used in COVID-19 vaccination. These patents are crucial as …

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Beyond COVID-19 vaccines: what else could mRNA technology do for our health?
1 year, 2 months ago

Beyond COVID-19 vaccines: what else could mRNA technology do for our health?

The Hindu  

Many people first became familiar with the term “mRNA” when Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out. In the simplest terms, mRNA, which stands for messenger ribonucleic acid, is a type of genetic material that gives cells in our bodies instructions to make specific proteins. So it was pivotal when Karakó and Weissman pioneered a technique to “cloak” mRNA …

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Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an mRNA Vaccine Revolution
54 years, 11 months ago

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an mRNA Vaccine Revolution

Wired  

No one expected the first Covid-19 vaccine to be as good as it was. “We were hoping for around 70 percent, that’s a success,” says Dr Ann Falsey, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, who ran a 150-person trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 2020. All the preliminary laboratory tests looked good; having seen …

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Medicine Nobel for the technology that turned the pandemic
1 year, 2 months ago

Medicine Nobel for the technology that turned the pandemic

The Hindu  

The 2023 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and the American physician-scientist Drew Weissman. The idea was to inject the body with a modified mRNA that would instruct cells to build a certain protein, which could then provoke the body’s immune system to ‘attack’ it as well as prepare itself to …

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How vaccines helped reshape the course of the Covid-19 pandemic
1 year, 3 months ago

How vaccines helped reshape the course of the Covid-19 pandemic

Hindustan Times  

When future generations look back at the pandemic, they will deem it a black swan event. Let’s delve deep into the crucial role vaccines played in the fight against COVID-19, highlighting their significance in preventing infections, crucial collaborations, the emergence of mRNA as the next big revolution in the vaccine space and more. mRNA vaccines represent a ground-breaking technology that …

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Column: Moderna and Pfizer are jacking up the price of COVID vaccines. The government should stop them
1 year, 11 months ago

Column: Moderna and Pfizer are jacking up the price of COVID vaccines. The government should stop them

LA Times  

Doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine wait to be administered at a clinic. That included a research grant of almost $1 billion from the government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, through 2020, plus a $1.5-billion federal purchase guarantee in 2020 for COVID vaccines before testing was even completed — a deal that materially reduced Moderna’s financial risks …

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Explained | How can mRNA vaccines help fight cancer?
2 years ago

Explained | How can mRNA vaccines help fight cancer?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The results of a trial of an experimental cancer vaccine built on the mRNA platform, made by Moderna and MSD, have shown promising results, media announcements claimed last week. “Once in the body, the mRNA instructs cells that take up the vaccine to produce proteins that may stimulate an immune response against these same proteins when …

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Fact Check: No, Pfizer CEO did not resign saying mRNA vaccines were unsafe
2 years ago

Fact Check: No, Pfizer CEO did not resign saying mRNA vaccines were unsafe

India Today  

It’s been almost three years since the Covid-19 pandemic nearly paralysed the world. Those sharing this 45-second-long video claimed that Bourla admitted that vaccines developed using mRNA technology were unsafe. 🇺🇸 Pfizer CEO Albert Burla is stepping down and now says the mRNA technology was not sufficiently proven when they launched. And I asked them to justify how can you …

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Hyderabad-based CCMB announces first potential mRNA COVID vaccine
2 years, 7 months ago

Hyderabad-based CCMB announces first potential mRNA COVID vaccine

Firstpost  

Dr N Madhusudan Rao, CEO of Atal Incubation Centre at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, said the mRNA platform has an advantage of flexibility unlike other vaccine platforms New Delhi: Dr N Madhusudan Rao, CEO-Atal Incubation Centre at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology on Monday said that India has developed mRNA technology against the COVID-19. The Hyderabad-based Centre …

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Hyderabad-based manufacturer to get mRNA technology from WHO to produce COVID-19 vaccines
2 years, 8 months ago

Hyderabad-based manufacturer to get mRNA technology from WHO to produce COVID-19 vaccines

Firstpost  

WHO and their partners will work with the Indian government to develop a roadmap and put in place the necessary training and support for Biological E to start producing mRNA vaccines as soon as possible Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based vaccine manufacturer Biological E on Monday announced that it has been selected as a recipient of mRNA technology from the World Health Organisation …

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Op-Ed: What China’s COVID lockdowns say about the pandemic’s next stage
2 years, 9 months ago

Op-Ed: What China’s COVID lockdowns say about the pandemic’s next stage

LA Times  

Two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, China has placed many areas — including two of its largest cities, Shanghai and Shenzhen — back into lockdown for its worst outbreaks since 2020. Although local officials said Shenzhen businesses will be allowed to reopen, they noted the city is still experiencing “sporadic outbreaks.” It is now clear that, facing …

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Traditional vaccines just as effective, says U.S. scientist
2 years, 11 months ago

Traditional vaccines just as effective, says U.S. scientist

The Hindu  

Vaccines like Biological-E’s Corbevax and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin that are made by traditional methods are “just as effective” as the latest mRNA technology based vaccines, says U.S. scientist and vaccine developer Dr. Peter Hotez. “We never really saw the advantage of mRNA, at least for a global health vaccine… because it’s a brand new technology and it’s going to take …

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中国升级新冠疫苗需多久？中疾控首席专家回应
3 years, 10 months ago

中国升级新冠疫苗需多久？中疾控首席专家回应

China Daily  

最近，英国、南非和巴西先后发现新的新冠病毒变异毒株。有卫生领域人员担忧，目前的疫苗可能无法有效对抗这些新的变异毒株。 1月18日，在阿塞拜疆首都巴库，一名医务人员接种中国科兴公司生产的新冠疫苗。（图片来源：新华社） 中国疾控中心艾滋病首席专家邵一鸣表示： If necessary, an upgrade for China's inactivated COVID-19 vaccine could be completed in about two months. 灭活技术路线重新设计需要的时间要比mRNA技术路线稍长，因为后者不需要培育和灭活病毒。 他表示，灭活疫苗的质控因素（quality control factors）较多，会比mRNA疫苗的化学合成和修饰的升级过程上稍慢一些，但前后时间差应不会超过1个月。 国外疫苗厂商也在关注变异毒株 Moderna Inc said on Monday it believes its COVID-19 vaccine protects against new variants found in Britain and South Africa, although it will test a new booster shot aimed at the South African variant after concluding …

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Britain is rolling out the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next week. What does that mean for Australia?
4 years ago

Britain is rolling out the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next week. What does that mean for Australia?

ABC  

Britain has just become the first country to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer says it will have enough vaccine to inoculate 25 million people this year, while contenders Moderna and Oxford University-AstraZeneca said they would have enough for 10 million and more than 100 million people respectively. US-based Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech first announced plans to create …

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'Sophisticated eskies' could be key to Australia's coronavirus vaccine import plan
4 years, 1 month ago

'Sophisticated eskies' could be key to Australia's coronavirus vaccine import plan

ABC  

Sophisticated "eskies" packed with dry ice and GPS-enabled thermal sensors will be used to transport one of the most promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates in Antarctic temperatures, if it's approved by Australian regulators. Key points: The vaccine needs to be stored at extremely low temperatures Its creator has developed boxes filled with dry ice to keep the vaccines cold Vaccines based …

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