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FDA OKs First Over-the-Counter Home Test for COVID-19

The Pharma Data

The new Ellume COVID-19 Home Test approved Tuesday detects SARS-CoV-2 virus protein fragments on nasal swab samples from any person 2 years of age or older, according to the FDA. .” Last week, the FDA approved a different at-home test, but it requires samples to be mailed to a lab to get the results.

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AHA News: Hormones Are Key in Brain Health Differences Between Men and Women

The Pharma Data

1, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Medical science has come a long way since the days of “bikini medicine,” when the only time doctors managed a woman’s health differently than a man’s was when treating the parts of her body found under a bikini. MONDAY, Feb.

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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

Drug Discovery World

Carolyn R Bertozzi, PhD – Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research Bertozzi is the Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H, the Anne T and Robert M Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Chemistry and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Radiology at Stanford University.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

XTalks

The company’s candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, is a synthetic messenger RNA that encodes the stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The University of Oxford/AstraZeneca partnership, in turn, is testing a viral-vectored coronavirus vaccine that again expresses the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus. The mask costs all of about $40 to make.