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Sanofi and Luminostics to join forces to develop smartphone-based self-testing solution for Covid-19

Sanofi and Luminostics have signed an agreement to evaluate a collaboration on a unique self-testing solution for COVID-19, using Luminostics’ innovative technology, and further adding to Sanofi’s ongoing efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic on multiple fronts. Luminostics would contribute its proprietary technology for consumer-diagnostics for COVID-19 testing while Sanofi would bring its clinical research […]

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Vehicle manufacturers retool to help medical device industry cope with demand

The German Federal Government asked domestic vehicle manufacturers to produce medical equipment, such as masks and ventilators, to help fight Covid-19. In a statement, the Volkswagen Group announced 20 March it will be providing about 200,000 category FFP-2 and FFP-3 protective face masks for public health protection in the near future. The donation is being […]

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Thirona, taking AI from spin-off to 40 countries in 6 years

Thirona, a Dutch start-up company specialising in AI to analyse medical images, is offering one of their products for free to medical imaging specialists in an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. International Hospital speaks to Dr Eva van Rikxoort, the Managing Director and founder of Thirona, about the company and its products. International Hospital: […]

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Medtronic aims to double ventilator manufacturing capacity

Medtronic said 18 March it plans to more than double its capacity to make and supply ventilators to fight the global pandemic. Medtronic, an industry leader in respiratory care and device innovation, said that they had already increased production by more than 40 percent and were on track to more than double its capacity to […]

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Preparing for pandemics of antibiotic resistant bacteria

Even as the world grapples with COVID-19, there is another looming public health problem. Antibiotic resistance, according to some experts, may turn out as bad, or even worse, than the current pandemic. Similarities in European and US fatalities In November 2018, the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) released a study which […]

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Sanofi and GSK partner to develop vaccine against COVID-19

Sanofi and GSK will partner to develop an adjuvanted vaccine for COVID-19, using technology from both companies. Sanofi will contribute its S-protein COVID-19 antigen, which is based on recombinant DNA technology. This technology has produced an exact genetic match to proteins found on the surface of the virus, and the DNA sequence encoding this antigen […]

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MilliporeSigma Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

MilliporeSigma, a global life science tools and equipment supplier, is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with products and solutions for scientists to detect and characterize viruses and to develop vaccines and therapies. “We are committed to providing researchers with the necessary raw materials, products and services that can aid the global scientific effort to fight […]

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Cleveland Clinic study confirms no association between medications for chronic cardiac diseases and COVID-19

Despite recent controversy suggesting that popular medications prescribed to lower blood pressure may increase the risk of infection by the novel coronavirus and lead to more severe outcomes in COVID-19, a retrospective study by Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, US, has supported the view that there is no foundation to these claims, although the researchers called for […]

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Pan-European consortium established to rapidly develop vaccine

A pan-European consortium of biotech companies announced April 23 that they will collaborate to develop and manufacture on a large scale a novel adenoviral vector-based vaccine against COVID-19. The vaccine candidate is expected to enter clinical trials mid 2020 with vaccine production planned to start following the successful trials. If all goes according to plan, […]