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How did pharma develop a vaccine so quickly?

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OBSERVATION: Biologics can take a long time to develop but COVID vaccines have been in development for almost 50 years and novel approaches were used to develop these vaccines. Vaccines typically take 10 to 15 years to develop, test and release to the public. The coronavirus vaccines, however, took less than a year.

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Covid-19 vaccines targeting Omicron variants expected to be ready for this autumn

Pharmaceutical Technology

As regulatory agencies gear up for another round of Covid-19 vaccine deliberations centered on emerging variants, Moderna has released data on its booster’s efficacy against Omicron subvariants. The mRNA-1273.214 booster contains the original Spikevax vaccine and a candidate targeting Omicron BA.1 1 variant of concern.

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Modernizing cell culture processes for the next wave of genomic medicine

Pharmaceutical Technology

The field of genomic medicine has reached a true turning point. With scientists fervently developing mRNA vaccines, nucleic acid therapeutics, and viral vector-based gene therapies, clinicians are set to have a growing number of tools available to treat a wide range of conditions, from infectious diseases to genetic disorders and more.

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CDSCO declares sample of Bharat Biotech’s typhoid vaccine Typbar as NSQ

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has declared a batch of Typbar, the typhoid polysaccharide vaccine from Bharat Biotech International Ltd as not of standard quality (NSQ).

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Micro-robots, smart toilets, and 3D bioprinted organs: the future of healthcare

Pharmaceutical Technology

You have just received the results from your whole genome sequencing test, offered through your public health provider, and discovered that you have a 75% chance of developing a rare form of cancer. It could be that you are lucky, and there is already a cancer vaccine on the market that you will get priority for. It is the year 2030.

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Access to genomic surveillance: Open science and public health

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The pandemic served as a catalyst for a revolution in genomic surveillance for tracking pathogens. The technology proved vital in aiding understanding of the evolution of and spread of virus in real time to inform public health measures, ultimately accelerating drug and vaccine development.

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A new dawn of the genomic age: five areas set to be transformed in 2023

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2022 was a banner year for genomics. In March, the collaborative T2T consortium published the first complete telomere-to-telomere sequence of the human genome, filling in the last 8% of the 3 billion base pairs that make up our DNA.

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