Vaccine major Serum Institute of India Pvt on Tuesday said it has joined CEPI network of vaccine producers to support rapid, agile, and equitable responses to future public health disease outbreaks. As part of the collaboration, CEPI will be investing up to $30 million. The investment will be to build upon SII’s proven track record …
Indian Immunologicals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board and a leading bio-pharmaceutical company, launched the country’s first indigenously developed Hepatitis A vaccine on Friday. The new vaccine Havisure represents a significant step forward in the country’s fight against Hepatitis A and is poised to make a substantial contribution to public health, a …
An Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Professor and collaborators have designed a synthetic antigen that can be manufactured as a potential Covid-19 vaccine candidate. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Raghavan Varadarajan, Professor at the Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU), IISc, and collaborators have been working on developing a heat-tolerant vaccine that can offer protection …
Researchers have described the first pediatric case of vocal cord paralysis following Covid-19 infection in a new study. The physician-researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear hospital in the U.S. have concluded that the paralysis was likely a downstream effect of the viral infection, and that it may be another addition to the ‘well-established’ nervous system-related …
Nationwide internet services in Pakistan experienced a widespread outage, with users reporting difficulties accessing social media platforms, according to Dawn, citing Internet monitor Netblocks. As reported by ANI, the disruption coincided with the virtual event organized by former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), scheduled to commence at 9 pm, resulting in the entire …
The United States is open to collaborating with India in building its own space station, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Administrator Bill Nelson said here on Tuesday. On a visit to India, Nelson said the U.S. and India were working on plans to send an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station by the end …
Legal trouble continues to mount for Imran Khan, Pakistan’s ousted prime minister, as a court in Islamabad has issued fresh arrest warrants against him in two more cases. Already in jail for the past three months, Khan now faces warrants of arrest issued against him by the Islamabad Accountability Court in the Toshakhana and the …