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Dr Laura Moro-Martin, freelance medical writer at Kolabtree, the freelance platform for scientists, explores the effects of COVID-19 on maternal health. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to escalate worldwide, with Europe and the USA now the epicentres of the pandemic. As of May 1, there are over three million declared cases and almost 240,000 deaths globally, with many countries undergoing community transmission....
  
HALIX B.V. has joined a consortium of partners under the guidance of the University of Oxford, to provide GMP manufacturing services supporting the large scale production of a COVID-19 vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19), being developed by the University’s Jenner Institute. This GMP manufacturing scale-up is taking place alongside early phase clinical trials. The trials are crucial in testing whether the vaccine is proven to be effective....
The Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow – a major new COVID-19 testing facility based in Scotland – is now operational. The Lighthouse Lab, which officially started testing samples for COVID-19 this week, is part of what will be the biggest network of diagnostic testing facilities in British history, alongside other Lighthouse Lab sites in Milton Keynes and Alderley Park, which were opened in recent days....
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has further expanded emergency use authorization (EUA) for its multiplex real-time PCR test intended for the qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19. "Increasing COVID-19 testing is a top priority in re-opening global economies," said Marc N. Casper, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Thermo Fisher Scientific....
Roche has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)1 for its new Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody test. The test is designed to help determine if a patient has been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and if the patient has developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. Roche has already started shipping the new antibody test to leading laboratories globally and will ramp up production capacity to high double-digit millions per month....
Data scientists from UK-headquartered AI precision medicine company, PrecisionLife, have used the Company’s proprietary AI enabled precision medicine platform to identify 59 repurposing drug candidates that could be used to develop new therapeutic strategies to increase the survival rate of patients who develop sepsis while suffering from severe COVID-19. The new study, released on Biorxiv sought to identify genetic risk factors for sepsis especially in the context of COVID-19, and to use these insights to identify existing....
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research have responded to a request from the White House, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg and others to find a way to rapidly sift through the mountain of COVID-19 scientific data. Taking time off from their own research, the Rothamsted team repurposed a tool they had originally developed to help crop scientists, to provide medical researchers with quick and intuitive access to all documented linkages between genes, medicines, and the virus....
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