Covid Vaccine- How close are we?
Covid Vaccine: Why did the need arise? In December 2019, reports flocked out of central city in Wuhan, China that a new coronavirus is causing a cluster of pneumonia cases in the city. On March 11, 2020, WHO declared the coronavirus as a pandemic and since then things have changed drastically. The deadly virus has […]
Can Moderna Therapeutics provide some hope in COVID-19?
Multiple companies are continuously working on developing a potential vaccine that could combat coronavirus. Moderna therapeutics is among the many companies which is working in response to the rapidly growing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2. Moderna therapeutics’ investigational mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1273) developed against the novel coronavirus is currently being evaluated in clinical trials. In Jan 2020, Moderna’s […]
Impact of COVID-19 on Clinical Trials
The world is in the grip of Covid-19, a WHO declared pandemic, with ever rising number of patients and no cure in near sight. In terms of casualties, both lives lost and those in need of critical care, and potential impacts on socioeconomics, the global health crisis is the biggest challenge faced after World War […]
How soon we will have an answer to COVID-19?
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected more than ~2.0Mn people worldwide and killed at least 134,733. (As of 16th April 2020). As the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases continue to surge, healthcare workers have started coming up with medical treatments which could counter the worldwide spread of the disease. Currently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has […]
Go Smart to avoid a bleak future of oncology sales force after Coronavirus in US?
Being a Sales representative is not an easy task; right from identifying potential prospects to lead generation, the role is demanding, physically tiring and full of uncertainty, failures and rejections not knowing if the goals would be met at the end of quarter. And now Coronavirus lockdown may create a turmoil for the frontline sales […]
CRISPR: A Transformation in Human Therapeutics
What is CRISPR? CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a revolutionary gene editing tool whose efficacy and ease of use has already accelerated innovation across multiple diverse industries. Biologically speaking, it is defence mechanism utilized by the bacteria for invading pathogens, but recently researchers have repurposed this entire gene editing technology giving it a newer […]