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A paper microscope that costs only 50 cents can detect malaria...
2015-07-29 00:40:18| Biotech - Topix.net
A paper microscope that costs only 50 cents can detect malaria from just a drop of blood - and it could revolutionize medicine For a whole lot of people, especially those in developing countries, science - and with it, medicine - isn't readily available to the majority of citizens. But Manu Prakash wants to change that.
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EU regulator recommends 1st license for malaria vaccine
2015-07-26 22:39:27| Biotech - Topix.net
In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, a mother holds her baby as she receives a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya.
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EU drug regulator recommends 1st license for malaria shot
2015-07-24 14:00:19| Biotech - Topix.net
In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, a mother holds her baby as she receives a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya. The European Medicines Agency is recommending that the world's leading malaria vaccine be licensed even though it is only about 30 percent effective and that protection fades over time.
World's first malaria vaccine one step closer after regulators recommend licence
2015-07-24 09:50:41| Biotech - Topix.net
The shot, called RTS,S or Mosquirix and developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline over 30 years in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, would be the first licensed human vaccine against a parasitic disease and could help prevent millions of cases of malaria in countries that use it. Recommendations for a drug licence made by the European Medicines Agency are normally endorsed by the European Commission within a couple of months.
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Sanofi Cholesterol Drug, GSK Malaria Shot May Get EU Okay Friday
2015-07-21 16:29:02| Biotech - Topix.net
Sanofi and Regeneron's new cholesterol drug Praluent could be recommended for approval in Europe as early as this week, along with the world's first malaria vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline.