the The US health agency CDC will abolish a rule that will allow most migrants who have entered the country illegally to be quickly deported because of the corona pandemic. The regulation will be ended effective May 23 to give the Department of Homeland Security enough time to take necessary measures such as expanding corona … Read more
– Coronavirus In a test center, an employee takes a swab for a rapid corona test. Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa – (Photo: dpa) – – – – The sheer volume of tests is pushing laboratories and health authorities to their capacity limits. And the question is getting louder and louder: are the PCR tests becoming scarce? … Read more
Frankfurt The success of the Covid-19 vaccine developer Biontech has brought new attention to German biotech companies. However, regardless of the success of Biontech, the industry has again moved more into the focus of venture capitalists, even if financing and production are still more difficult in Germany than in the USA. The cancer specialist is … Read more
– Albert Bourla Albert Bourla, board member of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller / KEYSTONE / dpa – (Photo: dpa) – – – – “A likely scenario is that there will be a need for a third dose, somewhere between six and twelve months, and then an annual re-vaccination, but all of this … Read more
– Vaccine comparison After the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine (right), the preparation of the US company Moderna may in future also be used in the EU. Photo: Jessica Hill / Stefan Sauer / FR125654 AP // dpa – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Both agents are so-called mRNA vaccines. In the term, the “m” … Read more
– Pfizer / Biontech Corona Vaccine A nurse draws the Pfizer / Biontech corona vaccine into a syringe in a London hospital. Photo: Frank Augstein / AP POOL / dpa / archive image – (Photo: dpa) – – – – The US Food and Drug Administration also granted the vaccine emergency approval on Friday. At … Read more
WORLD: Mr. Bhardwaj, your company Innoplexus has the world’s largest data platform in pharmaceutical research. With artificial intelligence, your computer algorithms search, among other things, for active ingredients to treat many diseases. Did you get the inspiration for your company from a very sad occasion? Gunjan Bhardwaj: Yes that’s right. My greatest inspiration was the … Read more