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Human trials begin in fortnight, J&J works to ramp up production of affordable COVID vaccine: top scientist
"Our aim for the vaccine candidate is that when a person receives the vaccine, their cells will mak…
PTI
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The fourth largest phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial has started enrolling volunteers
Up to 60,000 volunteers will be enrolled in the trial at up to nearly 215 clinical research si…
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Facebook is trying to advance AI to 'human levels' in order to build its metaverse
Facebook has a number of "challenges" standing in the way of its metaverse, including AI technology…
Kali Hays
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Bharat Biotech to start Phase-1 trials for its second COVID-19 vaccine in Feb-March
Besides Covaxin, Bharat Biotech has been actively working on developing another vaccine, for whi…
PTI
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Bharat Biotech sees rivals’ conspiracy in all the criticism for the approval for Covaxin
Bharat Biotech chairman and managing director, Krishna Ella, believes that the gossip-mongering …
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Pfizer seeks emergency use authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine in India
"Pfizer India has submitted an application on December 4 to the DCGI seeking emergency use au…
PTI
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Drug companies are recruiting Black Americans to participate in COVID-19 vaccine trials, trying to break down decades of mistrust
Black Americans have been affected by the coronavirus at a disproportionate rate, but many have bee…
Taylor Ardrey
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Surgeons attached a pig kidney to a human in a major breakthrough for organ transplantation
New York surgeons attached a genetically-engineered pig kidney to a human body in a groundbreaking …
Gabby Landsverk
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Videos showing potential Russian war crimes flood social media, 'overwhelming' human rights experts rushing to document them
Human rights researchers fear social-media companies will delete evidence of war crimes for violati…
Connor Perrett
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Dispensed: J&J speeds up its vaccine timeline — A $100 billion plan to save healthcare coverage — The go-to telemedicine startup
Welcome to Dispensed. This week, the story of how a little-known telemedicine company became a life…
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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There are already 72 drugs in human trials for coronavirus in the US. With hundreds more on the way, a top drug regulator warns we could run out of researchers to test them all.
The US has received over 950 proposals for coronavirus treatments, "a rather overwhelming amount in…
Andrew Dunn
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NIH Director Francis Collins shares his best-case scenario for a coronavirus vaccine: We could have a shot by fall but mass-producing it will be 'a heck of a stretch' by the end of the year.
The NIH leader said there could be one or more vaccines ready this fall, but the challenge of mass-…
Andrew Dunn
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Coronavirus Vaccine: Oxford University to recruit 500 volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trial
The team at Oxford will enroll healthy volunteers aged between 18–55, who, if pass screening, wi…
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Yes, you're consuming microplastics — here's how much, and what we do (and don't) know about the risk to human health
Humans ingest about a credit card's worth of microplastics by some estimates. Scientists are trying…
Andrea Michelson
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Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny wins EU's top human rights prize over his fight against Putin
Awarding Alexei Navalny the prestigious human rights prize marks a symbolic rebuke of Vladimir Puti…
John Haltiwanger
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CureVac's COVID-19 shot just failed in a large trial, a major setback for the Gates-backed biotech
CureVac's stock tanked after the announcement. The German biotech blamed variants in a press releas…
Andrew Dunn
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Johnson & Johnson could prepone its Covid-19 vaccine trial to September
Johnson & Johnson is in talks with the US National Institute of Health to start the late sta…
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Amazon and Postmates pilot two autonomous delivery trials in California
However, if more companies develop their own solutions, delivery robotics companies will find thems…
George Paul
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COVID-19 vaccine updates: AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine volunteer in Brazil dies, trial to continue
Vaccine development requires years, sometimes decades, of research. However, since COVID-19 struck,…
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Canada's 'beautifully surprising' basic income study shows how business needs to reconsider human nature
Started in 2018, the New Leaf project gave select homeless people in Canada $7,500 no strings attac…