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Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, will leverage previous development work for a SARS vaccine which may unlock a fast path forward for developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Sanofi will collaborate with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, expanding the company’s long-standing partnership with BARDA.

The fight against Malaria could get easier with a joint team of scientists from Department of Biotechnology’s Bhubaneswar-based Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) and Bengaluru-based Jigsaw Bio Solutions, coming up with a method that promises to overcome the problem of inadequate identification of asymptomatic carriers of the disease.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an application for the first generic of Daraprim (pyrimethamine) tablets for the treatment of toxoplasmosis (an infection caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii) when used with a sulfonamide (a group of medicines used to treat bacterial infections).

The World Health Organization’s new action plan to speed up universal access to safe blood and blood products pulls together existing recommendations and recommends new improved ways of working. It’s the start of a four-year collaborative effort to improve blood transfusion and blood-based therapies in all countries.

EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) recommended two medicines for approval at its February 2020 meeting.

Tomorrow’s innovations and research are going to be in the cross disciplinary areas and most of the research, innovations and products that are going to come out of engineering are going to be bio-inspired remarked Prof. Anil D.Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi in his inaugural address at the three-day International Conference on “Advances in Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences (ICAPHS - 2020) organised by NGSM Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, a constituent college of Nitte(Deemed to be University), Mangalore. He further added, with new technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning coming to the fore, it has become mandatory to embed technology into pharmacy, medical, and health sciences education as much as the need to embed biology and biological science in technology education. He said that while our education system has offered CEOs to Google, Microsoft, IBM how could industries in India, not find the right fit of students. Hence there is a need to build an ecosystem of innovation and every institution must have innovation cell he urged.

Acacia Pharma Group plc a hospital pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of new products aimed at improving the care of patients undergoing significant treatments such as surgery, other invasive procedures, or cancer chemotherapy, announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BARHEMSYS® (amisulpride injection) for the prevention and treatment of PONV in adult patients.

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have made a breakthrough that may eventually lead to improved therapeutic options for people living with asthma. The researchers have uncovered a critical role for a protein (Caspase-11), which had previously never been implicated in the disease.

The nematode roundworm c. elegans. / Gill lab

In a discovery that may further the understanding of diabetes and human longevity, scientists at Scripps Research have found a new biological mechanism of insulin signaling. Their study, involving the roundworm C. elegans, reveals that a “decoy” receptor is at work in binding to insulin molecules and keeping them from sending signals for increased insulin production.

Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known antibiotics. It also cleared infections in two different mouse models.