Micromotors used for the delivery of oral vaccines
6 February 2019 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Researchers have developed a method of using micromotors to deliver oral vaccines in an attempt to break away from widely used injections...
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Making liposomal formulations for the delivery of RNA vaccines
25 January 2019 | By Dolomite Microfluidics
A Dolomite Microfluidics’ set-up for high throughput single cell encapsulation is helping researchers at the Department of Medicine at Imperial College, London, to develop novel liposomal formulations for RNA vaccines targeting diseases such as HIV, influenza, rabies and chlamydia...
Freeze-dried TB vaccine candidate enters Phase 1 human clinical trial
24 January 2019 | By Nikki Withers (European Pharmaceutical Review)
A vaccine that does not require a cold chain could be much more easily distributed to communities in need…
Further scandal for China’s pharmaceutical industry
14 January 2019 | By Nikki Withers (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Chinese police say they have opened an investigation into reports that at least 145 children received an expired polio vaccine...
Vaccine facility targets development and manufacturing to fight pandemics
25 September 2018 | By Mike Stones
The new hub is designed to speed the response to deadly pandemics by improving the development and manufacturing of vaccines – particularly in low- and middle-income countries...
FDA approves Aristada Inito for the initiation of Aristada for schizophrenia
4 July 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Novel regimen enables physicians to fully dose up to two months of Aristada treatment on day one...
Researcher uses HPV vaccine to treat patient with skin cancer
4 July 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Evidence suggests the human papillomavirus plays a role in the development of some types of this skin cancer...
Overcoming unusual challenges in the characterisation of a monoclonal antibodies by LC-MS from early to late stage of development
2 July 2018 | By SCIEX
Different modalities of monoclonal antibodies are pushing the limits of characterization by MS: new critical quality attributes need to be carefully monitored from developability in early phases and then during process development and clinical phases...
BCG vaccine leads to long-term blood sugar improvement in type 1 diabetes
22 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
A study has found a novel mechanism underlying stable, durable blood sugar control...
Fast-acting cholera vaccine could curb outbreaks
15 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
A tricked-out cholera vaccine starts protecting against the deadly disease within a day, experiments in rabbits suggest.
New hope for a syphilis vaccine
13 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Researchers have identified exterior proteins on the bacteria that could serve as vaccine targets for syphilis.
Weekly injections shows HIV-1 viral suppression
11 June 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Results from a pivotal trial of a new HIV therapy, show that PRO 140 is an effective, long-acting therapeutic for previously treated HIV-1 infected patients...
Eczema drug effective against severe asthma
23 May 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Two new studies of patients with difficult-to-control asthma show that the eczema drug dupilumab alleviates asthma symptoms and improves patients' ability to breathe better than standard therapies...
A single-injection vaccine for the polio virus
22 May 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Nanoparticles could offer a new way to help eradicate the disease worldwide...
PET scan tracer predicts success of cancer vaccine
15 May 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
By engineering a special molecule to track certain immune cells in the body, scientists have invented a litmus test for the effectiveness of a newly devised cancer therapy...
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