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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.

In October 2019, Thierry Bernard provisionally took over the responsibilities of Qiagen CEO Peer Schatz, who had left the company unexpectedly after 27 years.

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.

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Paris-based Novacyt SA has signed a global distribution agreement with Bruker Ltd for its COVID-19 diagnostic test.

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AC Immune SA has received a milestone payment of CHF10m from Eli Lilly and Company.

Chart comparing symptoms in Covid-19 survivors and non-survivors. © Niels Riedemann/Inflarx NV

Scientists have discussed a link between Covid-19 and sepsis at a virtual symposium at Charité Berlin that might help reduce the burden of end-stage disease.

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Evonik Industries has established a new animal-free and fermentation-based industrial-scale recombinant collagen production platform.

© Two German companies, BioNTech and CureVac AG have announced to start trials on Covid-19 mRNA vaccine this spring. © BioNTech SE

Chinese Fosun Pharma Ltd has made the largest investment in a foreign company for a COVID-19 vaccine development: BioNTech’d mRNA vaccine BNT162.