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Policy

UK Approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Plans to Begin Dosing Next Week

The United Kingdom’s Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency granted temporary authorization for emergency use to Pfizer and BioNTech for their COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, BNT162b2.

December 2, 2020
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Mark Terry
Drug Development

Auris Medical Stock Soars With Promising COVID-19 Nasal Spray Results

Auris Medical rose by as much as 480% yesterday after it announced lab test results, which appeared to show that its nasal spray could potentially protect users against COVID-19.

December 2, 2020
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Krystle Vermes
FDA

Gavreto Wins Second FDA Approval in Three Months, This Time for RET-Caused MTC

The U.S. FDA approved Genentech and Blueprint Medicines’ Gavreto as a treatment for adults and pediatric patients 12 and above who have been diagnosed with rearranged during transfection (RET)-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC).

December 2, 2020
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Alex Keown
FDA

FDA Approves Roche COVID-19 Test that Aims to Test Vaccines’ Antibody Response

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to a COVID-19 test developed by Roche that measures antibodies within the blood.

December 2, 2020
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Heather McKenzie
Policy

Elderly and Healthcare Workers Should Receive First COVID-19 Vaccines, CDC Recommends

On Tuesday, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 13-1 in support of this recommendation.

December 2, 2020
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Alex Keown
Bayer Launches Cell and Gene Therapy Platform to Maximize Recent Acquisitions

This morning, Bayer said the launch of the new platform is a “deeply transformative” move for its business.

December 2, 2020
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Alex Keown
Time Cells Responsible for Cinematic Memories in the Human Hippocampus

Earlier theories of memory could only hypothesize that such recollections were stored by time cells, or “neurons in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex that fire at specific moments within a cognitive task or experience”.

December 2, 2020
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Abbey Glasure
Pharm Country

Janssen Acquires Rights to Hemera’s Macular Degeneration Gene Therapy

The therapy is a one-time, outpatient, intravitreal (into the eye) injection to preserve eyesight in patients with geographic atrophy.

December 2, 2020
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Mark Terry
BioSpace Global Roundup: Ipsen Wins Fast Track Designation for Cancer Drug and More

Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates on their business and pipelines.

December 2, 2020
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Alex Keown
General Surgery Devices Market Opportunities Opened Up by Robotics and the Computer-Assisted Sector

The global market for general surgery devices is witnessing a massive surge in demand owing to the mounting global population of geriatrics and the significant rise in number of surgical procedures.

December 2, 2020
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