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Posted on January 30, 2021February 1, 2021

Reneging on the ‘no-profit pledge’ to supply Oxford vaccine

On the say day the release was sent out announcing the partnership with AstraZeneca, Oxford University also tweeted saying that the vaccine will be manufactured and distributed “on a not-for-profit basis…

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Posted on December 7, 2019December 7, 2019

Brazilian researchers remain anonymous on research paper

Due to fear of losing their job, researchers from Brazil have preferred to remain anonymous in a paper on Amazon forest fire. The acknowledgement section of the paper published last…

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Posted on July 31, 2018August 5, 2018

NBRC-led team deciphers how Zika virus causes microcephaly

The NBRC-led team of researchers has identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which Zika virus causes microcephaly. The envelop protein of the virus was responsible for arresting the proliferation of human…

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Posted on November 23, 2016November 23, 2016

No complacency on Zika

The World Health Organisation has declared that the Zika virus no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. This brings to an end the heightened global focus on…

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Posted on July 7, 2016July 7, 2016

Infectious Zika virus found in saliva and urine

If researchers had earlier reported the presence of Zika virus in urine and saliva samples (besides semen, blood and breast milk), a new study has been able to find infectious…

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Posted on June 30, 2016July 4, 2016

Many Zika cases will be missed if microcephaly screening alone is used

The Zika virus landscape has got a little more complicated. Zika virus infections cannot be accurately diagnosed solely on the basis of microcephaly screening, reveals a study published today (June…

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Posted on April 15, 2016May 29, 2017

Getting pregnant in the time of Zika

With the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirming that Zika virus infection during pregnancy causes microcephaly and other severe foetal brain defects, the federal health officials in the U.S.…

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Posted on April 15, 2016June 28, 2016

A ‘turning point’ in the Zika outbreak

More than 50 years after the infectious pathogen, rubella virus, was identified as the cause of an epidemic of congenital defects, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in…

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