The Drugs Controller General of India has granted restricted emergency use authorisation to Moderna for its Covid-19 vaccine. It has also allowed Cipla to import donated doses of vaccine. US vaccine manufacturing giant Moderna has secured restricted emergency use authorisation…
AbbVie, Google Sister Company – Calico raise their age-related disease alliance funding to $3.5bn
AbbVie and Alphabet spin-out Calico Life Sciences have agreed to fund their seven-year-old partnership seeking treatments for diseases of ageing with another $500 million apiece. The collaboration with Google sister company Calico – formed in 2014 with $1.5 billion in…
Google’s DeepMind puts human proteome online for free
The most complete database of protein structures ever assembled, developed with the help of Google’s artificial intelligence unit DeepMind, has been made freely available to researchers around the world. DeepMind partnered with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) to come…
Nothing to sneeze at: nasal sprays to tackle Covid-19
Since the outbreak of Covid-19 worldwide, scientists and pharmaceutical companies alike have raced to find ways to protect against and treat the virus. One method of administration increasingly being pursued is the nasal spray; the cells lining the nose have…
