November 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that administers Wikipedia, have announced a collaboration to expand the public’s access to the latest and most reliable information about COVID-19:
From Johnson & Johnson to Shanghai Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical Technology lists the top ten global pharmaceutical companies in 2020, based on revenues:
Scientists offering to help the UK Government scale up coronavirus testing were snubbed by Health Secretary Matt Hancock after he apparently mistook the professional body representing almost 20,000 lab workers for a private firm:
A look inside the 40,300 sq. ft. Bio-Innovation Centre, the first bio-incubator on the Cambridge Science Park:
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The Business Research Company has released its report on the Analytical Laboratory Instruments Global Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2030:
A new visualisation created by graphics journalist Mariano Zafra shows how COVID-19 can spread through a room where someone has the virus:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has alerted clinical laboratory staff and health care providers that false positive results can occur with antigen tests for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2:
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has initiated the accelerated rolling review of AstraZeneca’s potential vaccine to treat COVID-19 which is being developed in collaboration with the University of Oxford:
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The 5th edition of Arena International’s Clinical Trial Supply Handbook 2020 is now available. This is a valuable reference guide for clinical trial supply chain professionals across the globe:
The Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) has released its 2020 Laboratory Market Report, which reviews the current landscape of U.S. clinical diagnostics and provides data on the biggest trends shaping laboratory testing:
