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A realistic (but very optimistic) timeline from the start of Phase-1 to the completion of Phase-3 could be about six to nine months (if all goes exactly according to plan),…
A day after serious concerns were raised, ICMR has reversed its stand. It says its decision to fast-track the trial process was only to cut the red-tape and not to…
On July 2, ICMR had sent a threatening letter sent to principal investigators at 12 sites to complete the Phase-1/phase-2 trail of India’s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by August 15.…
With the pandemic raging across many countries and the demand for a safe, efficacious vaccine being huge, availability of an indigenous vaccine will mean guaranteed availability for Indians, while a…
The results of the Phase-1 clinical trial of the Oxford vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) to prevent infection by novel coronavirus are expected by the first week of July. Serum Institute of…
While a single dose induced antigen-specific antibody and T cells responses in pigs, the booster dose enhanced the antibody responses with a significant increase in neutralising antibody levels. There was…
A phase-1 trial using a single dose of a vaccine (Ad5-nCoV) that uses a recombinant adenovirus type-5 vector that carries the genetic material that codes for spike glycoprotein of novel…
Six rhesus macaque monkeys were resistant to reinfection following exposure to novel coronavirus. Compared with nose, the lungs had very less virus when challenged. In another study, the researchers tested…
