Infectious Disease Control News and Press Releases

Infectious Disease Control

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Mammoth Biosciences Named to the 2020 CB Insights 150 Most Innovative Digital Health Startups List: 8/13/2020 3:32:40 PM; CB Insights today named Mammoth Biosciences to its second annual Digital Health 150 list, which showcases the 150 most promising private digital health companies in the world.
Horrors and Internal Effects of Diseases: 8/13/2020 12:36:49 PM; As we age, our bodies become more brittle, more vulnerable to injuries and diseases. Because of this, we no longer worry about external harm but internally as well.
Axis Bank Encourages Contactless: 8/13/2020 2:37:45 AM; Axis Bank has recently released a multi-film campaign, conceived by Lowe Lintas Mumbai, showcasing ‘tap to pay’ feature to enable risk-free transactions amidst the COVID crisis.
Mammoth Biosciences Further Strengthens IP Portfolio with Exclusive License to Novel Micro-Sized CRISPR Proteins: 8/12/2020 2:13:29 PM; Mammoth Biosciences, Inc., the company behind the world’s first CRISPR-based platform for disease detection and the world’s smallest known CRISPR Cas nucleases from the Cas14 family, today announced the exclusive licensing of a new CRISPR protein family, Casɸ, from UC Berkeley, for research development and commercialization in all fields.
Back to School Brings COVID-19 Concerns and Indoor Environmental Quality Challenges: 8/10/2020 9:08:16 AM; There are over 130,000 K-12 schools across the United States according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Over the coming weeks, countless students and teachers will be returning to classrooms, or to variations of online and in-person learning, to begin the new school year.
Exclusive Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, ABC News Correspondents and National Geographic Experts: 8/7/2020 8:35:51 AM; WHAT: National Geographic will be hosting a virtual panel discussion featuring an exclusive conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D.C.), ABC News correspondents and National Geographic expert to discuss the current pandemic, including how past deadly outbreaks can help lead to medical breakthroughs and the important lessons we can learn from past …
Consequences of Corona pandemic have a considerable impact on Lufthansa result: 8/7/2020 5:53:36 AM; • Adjusted EBIT declines to minus 1.7 billion euros in the second quarter despite significant cost reductions • Comprehensive "ReNew" restructuring programme to ensure global competitiveness after the crisis • Lufthansa Cargo with strong second quarter • Number of employees already reduced by 8,300 - redundancies no longer ruled out in Germany as well • …
British Airways’ August Schedule Sees Return to More Destinations: 8/7/2020 5:50:15 AM; Throughout August, British Airways is resuming flying to more destinations, albeit with continued low frequencies while the impact of Covid-19 remains felt across the globe.
NIH clinical trial testing remdesivir plus interferon beta-1a for COVID-19 treatment begins: 8/6/2020 3:35:10 PM; A randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of a treatment regimen consisting of the antiviral remdesivir plus the immunomodulator interferon beta-1a in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has begun.
Sky Sports to debate how COVID-19 has impacted Women’s Sport: 8/4/2020 11:17:02 AM; Sky Sports has announced new debate show, ‘Cancelled: Women’s sport & the impact of COVID-19’ airing on Thursday 12 August at 8pm. The show will look at why and how women’s sport has been affected in recent months since the pandemic.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Daily Roundup August 3, 2020: 8/3/2020 6:36:51 PM; The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the following actions taken in its ongoing response effort to the COVID-19 pandemic: • The FDA issued emergency use authorizations (EUAs) to Siemens for its ADVIA Centaur SARS-CoV-2 IgG (COV2G) and Atellica IM SARS-CoV-2 IgG (COV2G) tests, which are the first COVID-19 serology tests that display an estimated …
COVID-19 Emergency Committee highlights need for response efforts over long term: 8/3/2020 5:43:24 AM; The Emergency Committee on COVID-19, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), held its fourth meeting.
MSF hands over its COVID-19 programs in Navajo Nations and Pueblos: 8/3/2020 5:41:22 AM; After two months of collaborating with community leaders, tribal health officials, service organizations, and health care workers on preventing and controlling the spread of COVID-19 among Native Americans from the Navajo Nation and Pueblo peoples in the southwestern states of New Mexico and Arizona, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without …
Sanofi and GSK selected for Operation Warp Speed to supply United States government with 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine: 7/31/2020 4:28:23 PM; Sanofi and GSK today announce a collaborative effort with the U.S. government to accelerate the development and manufacturing of a COVID-19 recombinant protein-based vaccine.
Mammoth Biosciences Secures Contract from National Institutes of Health to Scale Its High-Throughput CRISPR SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Platform to Address Testing Capacity Shortages: 7/31/2020 12:02:27 PM; Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. today announced the company has received a contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its $1.5 billion Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program, making it the first CRISPR based initiative to be funded by the program.
McDonald’s Engages Mayo Clinic to Advise on Continued Approach to Cleanliness and Safety: 7/30/2020 8:45:28 AM; McDonald’s has engaged Mayo Clinic, a global leader in serious and complex healthcare, to provide ongoing counsel and expertise on emerging science in infection prevention and control and share best practices to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
DOE, HHS, VA Announce COVID-19 Insights Partnership: 7/28/2020 12:58:31 PM; Today, the Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the formation of the COVID-19 Insights Partnership, an initiative to coordinate and share health data as well as research and expertise to aid in the fight against COVID-19.
ING to book goodwill impairment in second quarter: 7/28/2020 10:33:27 AM; ING announced that as a result of the impairment test triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, it expects to book approximately €300 million as an impairment on the goodwill on its balance sheet in its second quarter 2020 results.
Coronavirus makes changes that cause cells not to recognize it: 7/24/2020 3:58:11 PM; With an alarm code, we can enter a building without bells going off. It turns out that the SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has the same advantage entering cells.
Vaginal ring for HIV prevention receives positive opinion from European regulator: 7/24/2020 3:43:51 PM; Today the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced it has adopted a positive scientific opinion on the dapivirine vaginal ring for use by cisgender women ages 18 and older in developing countries to reduce their risk of HIV infection.