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Why vaccines can't be launched overnight

Under normal circumstances, the development of new vaccines and treatments could take 10-20 years

Lakshmi Mittal gifts GBP 3.5 mn to Oxford for developing Covid-19 vaccine

Lakshmi Mittal said, "This year has been a wake-up call to the world to be better prepared for pandemics, which, as we have all experienced, can cause massive social and economic disruption."

IIT Kanpur partners with Bharat Dynamics for manufacturing ventilators

The indigenous ventilator has been developed by IIT Kanpur's incubated startup

Scientists question validity of major hydroxychloroquine study

A spokeswoman for Mandeep R Mehra, the Harvard professor who was the paper's lead author, said on Friday that the study's authors had asked for an independent academic review and audit of their work.

Oxford University's Covid-19 vaccine moves to next stage of human trials

The first phase of the trial began last month with 1,000 healthy adults aged 55 and under as volunteers.

June Almeida, scientist who identified the first coronavirus

In 1966, she used a powerful electron microscope to capture an image of a mysterious pathogen - the first coronavirus known to cause human disease.

Can Ganga water treat Covid-19? ICMR says no to study, need more data

Evidence and data available at the moment is not strong enough to start the clinical studies, said Dr Y K Gupta

Israeli research team gets a step closer to developing a Covid-19 vaccine

The Israel Institute for Biological Research has completed the development phase of Covid-19 antibody

Mumbai-based KPO builds global coronavirus platform for researchers

The research available on the website,​ which went live two days ago, is directed at researchers across the world across different disciplines in healthcare

Drug used for Ebola may be effective in stopping Covid-19 replication: ICMR

The research institute also said there can be a possibility of transmission of Covid-19 from a pregnant mother to the newborn

Scientists develop new 'smart' bandage to help heal hard to treat wounds

Scientists have developed a wirelessly-controlled bandage, and a smartphone-sized platform that can precisely deliver different medications to facilitate the healing of hard to treat wounds. The bandage is equipped with miniature needles that can be controlled wirelessly -- allowing the drugs to be programmed by care providers without even visiting the patient, according to the research published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. "This is an important step in engineering advanced bandages that can facilitate the healing of hard to treat wounds.The bandage does not need to be changed continuously," said Ali Tamayol, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut in the US. Given the range of processes necessary for wound healing, different medications are needed at different stages of tissue regeneration. The bandage can deliver medicine with minimal invasiveness, said researchers, including those from the Harvard Medical School in the US. With the platform, th

How scientists quantify pandemic potential of an outbreak like coronavirus?

Scientists use R0 - the reproduction number - to describe the intensity of an infectious disease outbreak

Researchers decode how body becomes prone to rotavirus infection

The findings, of their study, published in the journal Science Immunology, revealed that this inhibition prevented a robust antibody response in adult mice to rotavirus

ICMR and ICAR to collaborate for research on zoonotic diseases

Medical and agricultural research institutes ink MoU for cooperation in the area of zoonoses, anti-microbial resistance, nutrition and pesticide residues