Anthropogenic climate change results from the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This phenomenon is responsible for a relentless upward trend in global temperature. The hottest years ever recorded over...
An antibody test for the virus that causes COVID-19, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with Houston Methodist and other institutions, is more accurate and can handle a much...
The Oxford vaccine trial at the center of safety concerns highlights the idea that people’s immune systems respond to vaccines differently. We don’t yet know whether reports of immune complications in one or two trial...
Accelerating the development of and equitable access to vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics for COVID-19 has been a priority for WHO since the beginning of the pandemic. “Already, we have made remarkable progress,”...
Children and teenagers are less likely than adults to develop severe Covid-19 or die from the disease, according to the world’s largest study of hospital patients with Covid-19. Obesity, Black ethnicity and being under...
The UK must prepare now for a potential new wave of coronavirus infections this winter, says a new Academy of Medical Sciences report. The report, which draws on expertise from multiple Imperial researchers including...
Three-quarters of emerging illnesses come from animals and a new report identifies climate change as a primary driver of many of them. As the new coronavirus continues to turn the world upside down, crashing economies...
Rapid scale-up to billions of doses requires collaborative, all-out efforts by innovators, their manufacturing partners, and the entire supply chain. The biopharmaceutical industry is working at unprecedented speed to...
Economic recovery around the world could come faster if any COVID-19 vaccine is made available to all as a public good, said. He was speaking in an online panel discussion with members of the Aspen Security Forum in the...
In ordinary times, vaccine development, testing and manufacturing is a process that can take several years to complete. In the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we are in far from ordinary times. Extreme efforts...