Home-made Moderna vaccines…by 2024
Moderna to set up a facility in Victoria to make mRNA vaccines.
International biotechnology company Moderna will establish an mRNA manufacturing facility in Melbourne, after strikin...
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A Victorian-made mRNA vaccine gets to the next stage
It’s the first onshore mRNA vaccine to make it to clinical trials.
While other types of vaccine, like AstraZeneca, are currently being made in Australia, there is as yet no large-scale...
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Adelaide facility opens; ready and willing to make mRNA vaccines
A new company on the block has big ideas for pharmaceuticals.
A potential mRNA manufacturer has thrown wide its doors in Adelaide with the official opening of BioCina’s manufactur...
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Message in a bottle
The potential of mRNA technology goes well beyond COVID into some of our most prevalent diseases,...
In 1989, when Katalin Karikó submitted her first grant application to develop messenger RNA-based gene therapy, she k...
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COVID Booster: More variants, gut instinct, and pounding the pavement during lockdown
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Big study shows breakthrough infections are less severeA UK study of over a million participants has found that p...
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South Australian mRNA vaccines?
Are we any closer to getting an Australian manufacturer of mRNA?
Last month, the federal government closed applications for a critical approach to market process: it was looking for ...
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Explainer: Moderna COVID vaccine approved in Australia
What’s in the Moderna COVID vaccine, and how does it work?
The COVID-19 vaccine made by American company Moderna has been given provisional approval in Australia by the Therape...
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Australian made mRNA vaccines
For months, experts have been calling for mRNA to be manufactured onshore. It’s not too late to k...
Last September, German biotech company BioNTech bought a production site from Swiss drugs giant Novartis to manufactu...
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Possible link to blood clots after Moderna vaccine
The risk of blood clotting after vaccination is still vanishingly low.
A case study in the US has described a patient who developed thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), a rare ...
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'Technically no longer human' – can mRNA COVID-19 vaccines meld with your DNA?
Indeed, can your DNA be altered at all?
It's becoming increasingly common to see social media posts claiming that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which include t...
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COVID Booster: Hair conditioner, virtual PPE checks, and sperm counts after mRNA vaccines
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Hop on Zoom to get your PPE checkedWearing personal protective equipment properly is a critical part of medical c...
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COVID Booster
Five things we learned about COVID this week.
Time seemed to pass more slowly during the UK’s second lockdownA team of UK researchers has examined the way peop...