Licensed for use in sepsis, Sepsivac has shown good results in phase 2 and 3 trials in serious Covid-19 patients. A separate study is also testing the drug as a vaccine.
Addressing a CSIR meeting, PM Modi reiterated his call for 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat', saying the Covid crisis may have slowed its pace but the resolve remains the same.
Dr Anurag Agrawal, director, Institute of Genomic and Integrative Biology, also says it’s absolutely imperative that the government prepares for a third wave.
The DG of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dr Shekhar Mande, said people have to exercise self-discipline and self-regulation to beat the pandemic.
In Ayurveda, Picrorhiza kurroa or kutki is used for treatment of digestive disorders & for improving immunity. The herb was listed as rare and endangered in 1997.
Paper-based RAY test is much quicker than genome sequencing and can identify three variants with the common mutation N501Y from UK, South Africa, and Brazil.
Mande says current talks are scientific, and once CSIR’s Hyderabad-based CCMB understands Moderna’s mRNA technology, it can produce the vaccine ‘within weeks’.
A CSIR study said smokers had low seroprevalence. But doctors said smoking reduces immunity, which makes antibodies disappear faster — which is why seroprevalence may be lower.
In conversation with ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta at Off The Cuff, Shekhar Mande, Director, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, discussed his study that...
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Doval's comments came at 4th Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan attended by national security advisors from Tajikistan, India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan & China.
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