India’s potential participation in COVAX advance market commitment is under way: Trevor Mundel
Trevor Mundel, President of the Global Health Division, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has led the foundation’s efforts to support
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Month: October 2020
How an asymptomatic caused a super-spreading event
The Major League Baseball developed new health and safety protocols before the July 24 start of the 2020 season based
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Cannot emphatically say India has passed the COVID-19 peak
In a conversation, Dr. Gautam Menon, Professor of Physics and Biology at Ashoka University and co-author of COVID-19 modelling studies,
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Coronavirus: Two rapid tests developed by Indian labs show why funding for R&D should increase
While the low sensitivity of rapid antigen tests arises from not isolating the viral RNA from the swab samples and amplification of the DNA before detection, the two indigenously developed tests follow these two vital steps, the reason why the sensitivity and specificity are far superior than that of the rapid antigen tests.
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WHO supported Solidarity trial finds remdesivir ineffective but WHO prequalifies it anyway
Even as WHO supported Solidarity Therapeutics Trial found remdesivir to be ineffective in reducing mortality and duration of hospital stay,
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Pandemic causes 25% dip in TB notifications in India
While India accounts for 26% of TB cases in the world, the TB notifications during the period January-June 2020 in
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Remdesivir, other repurposed drugs ineffective, says WHO’s Solidarity trial
WHO’s Solidarity Therapeutics Trial, the largest randomised control trial carried out in the world during the pandemic, has found that
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IISER Pune’s novel method uses sense of smell to identify asymptomatic coronavirus infection
Using a custom-built olfactory action meter, which determines how well one can smell, a team led by Dr. Nixon Abraham
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A few U.S. universities rely on rapid tests for safe return to campuses
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began an ambitious initiative in mid-August to repeatedly test for free all students, faculty and
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FDA shows spine, rules out COVID-19 vaccines before Presidential election
With at least two months follow-up data likely to be available earliest only by November or December, the guidance essentially
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CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology: In a first, an all-women team wins the Nobel Prize
That scientists who pioneered the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, the biggest game-changer in biology in recent years, will win the Nobel Prize was never in doubt; it was only a question of when and who would get recognised for the work done to develop the tool.
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Dust aerosol responsible for snowmelt at higher elevation in western Himalayan Region
While black carbon has a large effect on snow darkening and resultant melting of snow, dust particles transported from as far as Saudi Arabia that gets deposited in the Western Himalayan Region has a large role to play in melting of snow, particularly at higher elevations.
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Rapid antigen tests ideal for coronavirus screening in the community
While rapid antigen tests used repeatedly in the same population can be used for screening, RT-PCR tests are designed for
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