Research

Sanford Burnham Prebys professor Andrei Osterman, Ph.D., has been awarded a $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand current knowledge of antibiotic resistance, which will inform more precise antibiotic prescribing practices and help researchers develop drugs that are harder for bacteria to resist.   Context  Antibiotic resistance is responsible for at least 700,000 […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: The Covid-19 Host Genetics Initiative carried out one of the largest genome-wide association studies ever. It involved meta-analysis of nearly 50,000 Covid-19 patients and two million uninfected controls. Dr Hamdi Mbarek, Lead Analyst of the Qatari dataset explains how the initiative improved knowledge of host-genetic determinants of Covid-19 […]

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Charles River Laboratories International are launching a new project to uncover how different cells in the human immune system respond to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.   The research  This new mouse model has been engineered to express human ACE2, the receptor that SARS-CoV-2 uses to […]

Ashu Singhal, President & Co-Founder of Benchling, shares newly heightened expectations for the biotechnology industry following the developments of the last 18 months.   The last 18 months have heightened expectations for the biotechnology industry. Scientists came together to develop vaccines at record speeds and set the tone for future scientific research. In this new era of […]

Sino Biological, provider of biological research reagents and related technical contract research services, has expanded to a new location in Houston, Texas.  The company has headquarters in Beijing, China and subsidiaries in Suzhou (China), Taizhou (China), Frankfurt (Germany), and Wayne (Pennsylvania, US). The new location in Houston allows for direct access via a close proximity to local Texas- and […]

Oxford University has announced a £50 million funding commitment from Serum Life Sciences to establish The Poonawalla Vaccines Research Building at the University of Oxford.  What will it do?  The Poonawalla Vaccines Research Building will share infrastructure and support facilities with Oxford University Pandemic Sciences Centre for scientific research and academic teaching. Together, they will […]

Physician-scientists of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have published a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine which suggests that in order to counter future coronavirus outbreaks, the global scientific and medical research community should focus a major effort now on three […]

The first clinical trial in the UK to investigate whether antiviral drugs could help reduce the severity of Covid-19 is due to start, led by the University of Oxford and delivered in Wales by Cardiff University in partnership with Public Health Wales and Health and Care Research Wales. Cardiff University staff are also working directly with Oxford […]

According to a new study, scientists have found chewing gum laced with a plant-grown protein serves as a “trap” for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reducing viral load in saliva and potentially tamping down transmission.  The study  The work, led by Henry Daniell at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine and performed in collaboration with scientists at […]

Sino Biological has launched a panel of research reagents for the newly identified Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The new Omicron product line includes recombinant Omicron spike proteins (RBD, S1, and S-ECD trimer), monoclonal antibodies recognising the Omicron spike protein, and the Omicron pseudovirus assay CRO service. These reagents will help scientists and […]