
Bispecific IgG switch off SARS-CoV-2 escape variants
The team headed by Daniel Ruzek or Luca Varani from the University of Bellinzona and the Czech Academy of Sciences targeted two binding sites within...

Novel COVID antibody enters clinical testing
In contrast to existing COVID-19 treatments, the safety design of COR-101 is optimised for the treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients with...

Janssen presents one-shot COVID-19 vaccine data
Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ Phase III adenoviral vector vaccine JNJ-78436735 gave immune protection over two and a half months after a single vaccine...

PCR-test reveals risk of genotoxity of genome editing
The new method called single targeted linker-mediated PCR sequencing (CAST-Seq), developed at University Hospital Freiburg, Germany, is set to become...

Valneva in talks with EU about 60 million vaccine doses
VLA2001 is currently the only inactivated vaccine candidate in clinical trials against COVID-19 in Europe. The vaccine candidate entered Phase I/II...

EU life science PPPs face less budget in Horizon Europe
The EU’s Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), which have been under fire by the European Parliament and were renamed into ‘European Partnerships‘, are...

Roche Phase III study misses COVID-19 endpoint
In the Phase III REMDACTA trial, the Swiss pharma major combined its cytokine storm blocker tocolizumab with Gilead Science’s viral transcription...