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Budget 2021: Sunak focuses on vaccine development to restart economy

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UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a budget loaded with initiatives designed to kick-start the UK’s economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, with vaccine development, pharma and life sciences playing a key role. A scheme providing £500 payments to people self-isolating has been extended in England until the summer.

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A protein-based COVID-19 vaccine that mimics the shape of the virus

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Even as several safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are being administered to people worldwide, scientists are still hard at work developing different vaccine strategies that could provide even stronger or longer-lasting immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.

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Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Results: Stellar, Long-Ranging Efficacies in Children and Against Variants

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Pfizer released new COVID-19 vaccine trial results this week from its ongoing clinical studies, which include data showing that its COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is 100 percent effective in children between the ages of 12 and 15 and has a 91 percent efficacy against variants with protection lasting at least six months.

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Ixchiq Wins FDA Approval as World’s First Chikungunya Vaccine

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France-based biotech Valneva has won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq for the prevention of infection from the chikungunya virus. The vaccine is approved for adults 18 years of age and older who are at increased risk of exposure to the virus.

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Roche launches new quantitative antibody test to measure SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, to support the evaluation of vaccines

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This is the focus of vaccines in development and convalescent plasma therapy. 1 Specifically, the test targets antibodies which are directed against the particular region of the viral spike protein responsible for binding to the host cell receptor, which is required for the virus to enter the host cell.

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PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE AND PROFOUND PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACT OF VACCINATION ONE YEAR AFTER PANDEMIC DECLARED

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(NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced real-world evidence demonstrating dramatically lower incidence rates of COVID-19 disease in individuals fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine (BNT162b2), underscoring the observed substantial public health impact of Israel’s nationwide immunization program.

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CohBar and Morphogenesis in merger for immuno-oncology therapies

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Morphogenesis’s technologies include Immune Fx (IFx) personalised cancer vaccines and tumour microenvironment (TME) modulators. IFx has been designed to activate an innate immune response against tumour antigens that are patient-specific. Morphogenesis’ lead personalised cancer vaccine, IFx-Hu2.0,