Last week, we published a story after Gates Foundation joined forces with Wellcome Trust and Mastercard to launch a $125 million Therapeutics Accelerator to combat coronavirus (COVID19) epidemic. Today, during the “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was […]
As death toll from coronavirus tops 8,000, scientists and researchers are working around the clock to develop vaccine for the deadly virus. These morning we wrote about by three major biotech companies, BioNTech, CureVac and Moderna that have been thrust into the spotlight for their […]
As the world grapples with the deadly coronavirus, the reported cases of COVID-19 have surpassed 200,000 worldwide, with more than 8,000 people killed by the virus globally, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The good news is that more than […]
On March 12, we wrote a story about Dr. Shiva, an MIT Biologist with four PHD degrees from the same school, after he expressed his concerns about the coronovirus and how the media has exaggerated the coronavirus outbreak to scare […]
Update: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 (9.20 PM EST) —New controlled clinical study conducted by doctors in France shows that Hydroxychloroquine cures 100% of coronavirus patients within 6 days of treatment (covidtrial.io) On March 16, we covered a story about new […]
For the first time, the total number of reported coronavirus cases now exceeds 200,000 globally. As of the time of writing, 8,246 people have died of the deadly virus. In the midst of all the bad news, there is a […]
You’ve probably heard the phrase “social distancing.” What does it really mean and why is CDC and WHO urging people to adopt the measure? Social distancing is a mitigation measure or a set of infection control actions intended to stop or […]
Contrary to the headlines in the mainstream media, the first case of coronavirus did not happen in late December 2019. According to a new report from the South China Morning Post, the first earlier case of coronavirus Covid-19 actually took […]
Kamada, an Israel-based biopharmaceutical company that is focused on plasma-derived protein therapeutics for treatment of individuals with rare diseases, today announced that it has started to work on developing a blood-plasma derived treatment against the virus. The Rehovot, Israel-based biopharmaceutical company, said it is […]
There is more good news this afternoon that the results from clinical trials for COVID-19 could start to roll in any day, with antimalarials coming through first, according to a report of BioCentury’s analysis of study completion dates in public […]
With all the bad news about coronavirus pandemic, there is good news the mainstream media is not talking about. One of the good news is coming from e-commerce giant, Amazon. Today, Amazon announced it is hiring 100,000 new full-time and […]
As Americans grapple with coronavirus pandemic, virus expert Trevor Bedford sounded alarm today that a single traveler from China infected 39 people in Washington state with China’s coronavirus. Trevor Bedford runs a research laboratory Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, […]
There are many reports out there that coronavirus epidemic may slowed as the weather warms up just as flu viruses often do. However, these reports are not supported or backed by any scientific study or proof. Now, a new preliminary […]
SimScale, a Munich, Germany-based tech startup and a provider of the world’s first production-ready SaaS application for computer-aided engineering (CAE), today released enhanced collaboration features and a multi-user licensing package to support design, engineering, and architecture teams with multiple people who use […]
Axis Security, the private application access startup, today emerged from stealth with $17 million in funding to launch a purpose-built, cloud-native security and analytics platform that offers organizations simple and secure control of private application access. Built on a zero-trust approach, the […]
The coronavirus epidemic COVID-19 has wiped out over US$ 16 trillion from global stock markets in just 52 days. Not to be confused MAGA (Make America Great Again), “MAGA” stocks, or Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet saw their market […]
HashiCorp, a San Francisco, California-based cloud infrastructure startup that enables organizations to provision, secure, and run any infrastructure for any application, today announced it has raised $175 million in Series E funding to accelerate its focus on enabling multi-cloud infrastructure automation for organizations […]
A Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating an investigational vaccine designed to protect against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has begun at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) in Seattle. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of […]
As we reported on March 6, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute announced it has received a green light from the government to begin its vaccine trials, the first of its kind. Its research team is enrolling 45 healthy people, ages […]
If you are like the rest of Americans, you are probably afraid and tired of hearing the gloom and doom news about the coronavirus. The airwaves are filled with news about corona apocalypse. Contrary to the headlines in the mainstream media, […]
