The Indian Council of Medical Research was in talks with the Serum Institute of India for local manufacturing of monoclonal antibodies (MABs). However, it did not take off, as the volume was much less in India.
This will also help test the effectiveness of preventing the entry of Nipah in target cells.
'We are receiving a steady stream of interest from well-established foreign universities.'
Given the recurring outbreaks in the last five years, the government is considering domestic manufacturing of monoclonal antibodies for treating Nipah virus infections and is in talks with Serum Institute of India, report Shine Jacob and Sohini Das.
The researchers noted that while COVID-19 and influenza are both severe respiratory viruses, they appeared to affect cardiac tissue very differently.
In a short video, Warner thanked Queensland-based Indian student, Shreyas Sheth.
The same team of scientists had last year dismissed the lab leak idea as a conspiracy theory in a report also published in The Lancet.
Researchers said compounds that are already along the pipeline to drug discovery are preferred, as they can be further tested as antivirals at an accelerated rate compared to new drug leads that would have to go through this process from scratch.
Daniel Ferreira of the London School of Economics, and Renee Adams, of the University of Queensland, found that while companies with more women on their boards tend to have better corporate governance, they are less profitable.
Reader Ajay Panwar met former Australian fast bowler Michael Kasprowicz at the University of Queensland.
Some mango components act on the same pathways that diabetes and cholesterol drugs target.
According to a study, abstaining from Facebook activity makes your stress hormone drop.
'If unchecked, by 2017, the global volume of discarded e-waste will weigh almost equivalent to 200 Empire State buildings.'
Nobel laureate Peter Doherty says his 'big worry' is there could be refusals for other vaccines if doubts over its safety turn out to be true.
Coast and Country challenged Adani's plans to build biggest mine in the Galilee Basin.
It isn't one disease. It can attack different organs and there are very significant differences in the treatment modes for each.
There's no steam in the intolerance debate anymore but the opposing sides still refuse to let it go, says Sampath.
It was the greatest series in the history of the game but what has become of those Australian and English players a decade on?
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