The vaccine candidate targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. © University of Oxford

Dutch Halix BV will manufacture a ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford .

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For years, French Carbios SAS has worked to set up a process that effectively depolymerizes PET, one of the most common plastics. Now its process has been published.

Amplidiag Easy, developed in partnership with Tecan, automates the nucleic acid extraction and PCR plate setup for all Amplidiag diagnostic products. © Mobidiag/Tecan

Molecular diagnostics specialist Mobidiag Ltd has got emergency approval for its Amplidiag® COVID-19 molecular diagnostic test in Finland.

Part of the phylogenetic tree published in PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117. © Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

British researchers have tabled a phylogenetic tree showing different subtypes of SARS-CoV-2 developed in Asia, Europe and the US.

Lady with solnatide vials in production. © Apeptico

Austrian COVID-19 patients with severe lung dysfunction for the first time have a treatment option within a compassionate use program for Apeptico’s solnatide.

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Following the completion of Danaher’s €19.5bn take-over of GE Healthcare Life Sciences, GE’s CDMO arm is renamed Cytiva.
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Low intrinsic efficacy can explain the reduced side effects of new agonists of the m-opioid receptor a British-Australian reseach team reports.

Austrian funding organisation FFG has launched €1m for COVID-19 projects, one of which is Apeptico's project. Furthermore, Apeptico gets funding under a Horizon 2020 grant of €47.5m for 17 COVID-19 projects. ©FFG

Austrian APEPTICO has got Horizon 2020 money for accelerated development and clinical use of Solnatide for the treatment of COVID-19 patients

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The European Medicines Agency EMA has backed eight medicines for approval at its virtual March 2020 meeting.

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Scandinavian researchers have created a unified, open-source model providing a genome-wide portrait of human disease metabolism.