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Asia-Pacific Roundup: New Zealand bans unapproved COVID vaccines

The Pharma Data

The New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (Medsafe) has banned the trade in unapproved COVID-19 vaccines for a year to prevent the use of vaccines that may not be safe or effective. . The public could also import personal supplies of vaccines. Medsafe framed the action in the context of public safety. . “In

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Modernizing cell culture processes for the next wave of genomic medicine

Pharmaceutical Technology

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. The field of genomic medicine has reached a true turning point.

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Yale-NBA Partnership Results in FDA Approval for COVID-19 SalivaDirect Test

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Instead of RNA extraction, the Yale test involves use of a reagent that when mixed with a saliva sample and heated for a short period of time, releases the viral genome for subsequent detection with PCR. Having a test that requires less reagents and resources, such as the RNA extraction kits, increases capabilities for increased testing.

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Using analytics and bioassays to de-risk your mRNA LNP drug development programme

Pharmaceutical Technology

The swift development and deployment of messenger-RNA (mRNA) vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the COVID-19 crisis has catapulted the pharmaceuticals industry into a new paradigm. Used in the COVID-19 vaccines, LNPs have shown a promising track record of protecting the mRNA cargo from degradation.

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UK’s Salient Bio launches robotic COVID-19 testing platform

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The platform is reagent agnostic, meaning that disruption in supply chains can be mitigated by a shift to different reagent suppliers without it calling for wholesale infrastructure change at Salient’s labs, therefore limiting disruption and costs.

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Rising Demand for DNA and Gene Cloning  Service Providers

Roots Analysis

Further, the labor and reagent cost incurred in cloning procedures is reduced with customized cloning. Several biopharmaceutical players have collaborated and contributed to the research and development of different products, such as DNA cloning kits, vaccines and treatment solutions to combat COVID 19.

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Transforming Biomanufacturing: Potential of Cell Free Systems

Roots Analysis

Biomanufacturing utilizing cell free systems is an emerging area of research that enables the synthesis of different biomolecules, such as cytotoxic proteins, fusion proteins, post translationally modified proteins, antibodies, enzymes, vaccines and other complex proteins, without the use of living cells.

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