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Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are developing a new heat-tolerant vaccine that can offer protection against different strains of SARS-CoV-2 -- both current and future variants.This comes even as the country is under the ...

The team then tested the new peptide’s effect on the growth of several disease-causing bacterial species, including E coli, Salmonella Typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus, and a multidrug-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii, both in cell culture and animal models, in collaboration with the lab of Dipshikha Chakravortty, Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology (MCB). They also compared the effect of their peptide against clinical doses of ciprofloxacin. ​

Maurice Wilkins, in full Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, (born December 15, 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand—died October 6, 2004, London, England), New Zealand-born British biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) proved crucial to the determination of DNA’s molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick. For this work the three scientists were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Wilkins, the son of a physician (who was o...

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Lars Hufnagel will be responsible for advancing VERAXA’s antibody screening and ADC technologies by further developing its droplet-based microfluidic screening technology.HEIDELBERG, Germany, March 14, 2022 / B3C newswire / -- Dr. Lars Hufnagel has been appointed Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of VERAXA Biotech, base...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Scientists Martin Hengesbach (left) und Andreas Schlundt at the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometre at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. view more  Credit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany FRANKFURT. When the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates, this initially only means that there is a change in its genetic blueprint. The mutation may lead, for example, to an amino acid being exchanged at a particular site in a viral protein. In order to quickly ...