Tag: innovation

April 15, 2021

Researchers have developed a new superbug-destroying coating that could be used on wound dressings and implants to prevent and treat potentially deadly bacterial and fungal infections. The material is one of the thinnest antimicrobial coatings developed to date and is […]

April 12, 2021

On the heels of its recently released data in teens ages 12-15, Pfizer and BioNTech said they applied to the FDA to expand emergency use authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine to include that age group. Meanwhile, real-world data from Israel […]

April 8, 2021

Progress in science and technology offers extraordinary opportunities to develop innovative medical products that can save lives and lead to better treatments, better diagnostics and better care for patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is committed to advancing the […]

April 7, 2021

A team of scientists from the University of California Santa Cruz, USA, recently identified a novel variant (B.1.x) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that might be circulating in at least 20 US states and six countries globally. […]

April 5, 2021

A research group from the U.S. demonstrated the practicality of a spike display system in order to accelerate vaccine design, but also to swiftly appraise the effects of mutations in emerging strains of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 […]

April 5, 2021

Hardy Diagnostics, in partnership with Autobio, has launched the Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionized Time of Flight instrument. The device, which is otherwise known as MALDI-TOF, offers high-speed detection and taxonomical classification of bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi based on proteomic fingerprinting. […]

April 2, 2021

What we know about COVID-19 seems to change by the minute. It’s understandable, given the massive scale of the pandemic. Right now, more than 129 million cases have been confirmed around the world. And even a year into the pandemic, […]

April 1, 2021

A new study has revealed a surprising lack of support for widely-held explanations of why some mammals evolve larger brains than expected for their body size. The research, co-led by Flinders University’s Dr. Vera Weisbecker, argues that scientific understanding of […]

March 29, 2021

COVID-19 may have different effects at different stages of pregnancy. This is because pregnancy is associated with wide-ranging hemodynamic and immunological changes, among others. The latter may predispose the pregnant woman to greater severity of disease following viral infection. Pregnancy […]

March 29, 2021

Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem cells – a discovery which could eventually lead to new treatments for major bone fractures and the repair of lost […]

March 23, 2021

An analysis of thousands of genomes from people with and without the rare eye disease known as MacTel has turned up more than a dozen gene variants that are likely causing the condition to develop and worsen for a significant […]

March 23, 2021

Estimates of the proportion of COVID-19 cases caused by asymptomatic individuals vary but make up a significant minority of transmission events even at the low end of the range. The role of people with no significant symptoms in the transmission […]

March 19, 2021

VA’s ongoing analysis of the only site operational with the new EHR, the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., precipitated the need for a schedule shift, the agency said. Mann-Grandstaff went live in October last year, the first site […]

March 19, 2021

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread all over the world, its causative pathogen, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is being monitored for the emergence of new variants and alterations in viral biology. In […]

March 18, 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to spread globally, with new variants of concern continuing to emerge. Scientists aim to closely monitor the spread of the virus and detect newly […]