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FDA Targets Early September for Approving Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine
Original Source The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine by early September, amid a resurgence of cases that has heightened pressure on the administration to get more Americans vaccinated. While the agency had long eyed the fall for granting full licensure, officials have recently accelerated their work, and now hope…
Read MoreWHO Issues New Recommendations on Human Genome Editing for the Advancement of Public Health
Original Source Two new companion reports released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) provide the first global recommendations to help establish human genome editing as a tool for public health, with an emphasis on safety, effectiveness and ethics. The forward-looking new reports result from the first broad, global consultation looking at somatic, germline and heritable human…
Read MoreSickle Cell Disease and a Pivotal Moment to End Health Inequality
Original Source Covid-19 laid bare the long-standing vulnerability of minority and low-income communities in U.S. society and its health system even as we celebrated the power of scientific innovation to rein in the pandemic. It’s time to turn that innovation, driven by an even greater mind shift, to end inequality in treatment. In perhaps no…
Read MoreNew Study Shows Partnership Between Michigan’s Skilled Craft Unions And The Biopharmaceutical Industry Resulted In More Than $1.1 Billion In Investment Over Six Years
Investment Yielded Nearly $26 Million in Earnings for Michigan’s Skilled Craft Union Workers By PILMA KALAMAZOO, Mich., July 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association today released an update to its first-of-its-kind report on the economic impact of the long-standing partnership between skilled craft unions and the biopharmaceutical industry in Michigan and 13 other states. The report…
Read MoreBIO – Why we Must Improve Clinical Trial Diversity – and How
By J.P Carroll – View Original Publication Black Americans have lost 3.25 years of life expectancy and Hispanic Americans have lost 3.88 years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research published by the British Medical Journal. This is just the latest among the longstanding health inequities brought to light by the pandemic, which has…
Read MoreCayman Develops Powerful Multiplex ELISA for Autoantibody Detection
ANN ARBOR, MI, May 11, 2021 — Cayman Chemical’s new Q-Plex™ Autoantibody Detection 10-Plex Panel, developed in collaboration with Quansys Biosciences, offers standardized, multiplex capabilities for the concurrent analysis of ten prominent analytes associated with rheumatoid arthritis or other autoimmune diseases. This new qualitative, chemiluminescent ELISA measures human antibodies against PAD3, PAD4, fibrinogen, citrullinated fibrinogen,…
Read MoreThe Big Pharma CEO Who’s Helping to Put an End to COVID-19
Most Americans don’t know his name. Before the announcement that his company had come up with a vaccine for COVID-19 that was 95 percent effective and was primed to manufacture millions of doses, fewer still knew much about the company he led—Pfizer—other than this: They didn’t like it. Or the industry in which he spent…
Read MoreVestaron Announces New Sustainability Commitment
On Earth Day, peptide-based ag innovator shares sustainable vision April 22, 2021 – (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) – Vestaron, a leader in the evolution of agricultural environmental science, is solidifying their commitment to sustainability through the launch of a new multi-faceted sustainability platform, emPOWERED by Purpose. With powerful novel solutions, Vestaron’s peptide-based products provide growers with…
Read MoreGreenMark Secures FDA Clearance for LumiCare Caries Detection Rinse
Enhanced Visualization of Dental Caries is the First Commercial Application of Startup Venture’s Nanotechnology Platform East Lansing & Ann Arbor, MI, April 8, 2021 – GreenMark Biomedical Inc. announced that the company has secured regulatory clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its LumiCare™ Caries Detection Rinse as a 510(k) Class…
Read MoreAnn Arbor SPARK to Manage Statewide Michigan Internship Program
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) will partner with Ann Arbor SPARK to launch the Michigan STEM Forward internship program on a statewide level. SPARK has run the program on a local level through the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti SmartZone with a decade of positive results. In scaling the program up, MEDC will work in partnership with…
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