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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. COVID-19 Clinical Trials.

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Cyfendus Anthrax Vaccine Wins FDA Approval

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Kelly Warfield, Emergent’s senior vice president, science and development, in the company’s press release. Anthrax is a rare, yet severe disease caused by the bacterium B. The non-inferiority of Cyfendus to BioThrax was statistically determined in the clinical study results. What Is Anthrax? Additionally, at Day 64, 86.6

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Merck’s Next-Generation Pneumonia Vaccine Gets FDA Approval

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Compared to Vaxneuvance’s targeting of 15 different strains of the bacterium, Pfizer’s shot protects against 20. Both next-gen shots offer enhanced protection against bacteria that can cause pneumonia, blood infections and meningitis. This is seven more strains than its current winning vaccine Prevnar 13, which registered $5.95

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New Research Shows IBS Symptoms May be Caused by Gut Infections

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To test their hypothesis in the lab, the researchers infected mice with a stomach bacterium and fed them a protein found in egg white called ovalbumin at the same time (this protein is commonly used as a typical model food antigen in experiments). The antihistamine treatment is currently being evaluated in larger clinical trials.

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Top 30 Pharma and Biotech Companies in 2023: Statistics and Trends

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With Blackstone Life Sciences, up to €300 million (around $315 million USD) will be invested to accelerate pivotal studies and clinical development programs for formulating the subcutaneous delivery of the anti-CD38 antibody Sarclisa (isatuximab) for the treatment of multiple myeloma. billion ($3.65 billion ($2.85 billion ($19.19

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Medicago’s Plant-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Human Trials

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Originally published on July 15, 2020: Quebec-based biotechnology company Medicago has developed a plant-derived vaccine for COVID-19 that is now undergoing early-stage clinical trials. The Phase I trials will evaluate the safety of the plant-based vaccine in a cohort of 180 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 55.

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

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The pandemic propelled the life science and healthcare sectors onto center stage, and they rose to the occasion against the most unprecedented health challenge in recent times. While COVID-19 has undoubtedly been the biggest story in the life science industry in 2020, it was a busy and positive year in many other areas.