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Samsung Biologics, GreenLight conclude Covid-19 vaccine engineering run

Pharmaceutical Technology

Samsung Biologics and GreenLight Biosciences have completed the initial commercial-scale engineering run for their messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) Covid-19 vaccine under their manufacturing collaboration. This will enable GreenLight to commercially deliver the mRNA vaccine.

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Successful clinical trial for re-engineered Covid vaccine 

Drug Discovery World

The University of Queensland’s re-engineered clamp platform has produced a vaccine that is equally safe and virus-neutralising as an approved Covid vaccine considered among the best in its class. million to continue development for use in the global response to future disease outbreaks. The Clamp2 trial group showed a 2.5-fold

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Ginkgo Bioworks to discover and develop novel vaccine adjuvants 

Drug Discovery World

A five-year contract totalling up to $31 million including programme options has been awarded to Ginkgo Bioworks to discover and develop next-generation vaccine adjuvants. Licensing for human use Adjuvants are components of vaccines that help to enhance the magnitude, breadth, and duration of the immune response to vaccination.

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Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine gets Taiwan FDA EUA for use in adults

Pharmaceutical Technology

Novavax has obtained emergency use authorization (EUA) for its Covid-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373), from the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration for use in people of the age 18 years and above. The protein-based vaccine is engineered from the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus’ initial strain.

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US to buy additional Novavax Covid-19 vaccine doses

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense have modified their existing agreement with Novavax to secure additional doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, Adjuvanted (NVX-CoV2373). million additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine. It was developed using the recombinant nanoparticle technology of Novavax.

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Opinion: STAT+: How to close biopharma’s data science and engineering skills gap

STAT News

In biopharma research and development, laboratory data now exist in petabytes. Vaccines, which have traditionally been grown in eggs or cell cultures can now be printed. Today’s fastest liquid-handling robots can dispense samples into 384 wells in a matter of seconds. Algorithms are the path to discovering new materials.

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Researchers at IISc develop novel method to deliver vaccine candidate for TB

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, has designed a new method to deliver a vaccine candidate for tuberculosis (TB). The research involves using spherical vesicles secreted by bacteria coated on gold nanoparticles which can then be delivered to the immune cells.