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Wockhardt's profitability for Q4 improves to Rs 48 crore
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 11 (ANI): Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major Wockhardt on Monday reported a profit after tax of Rs 48 crore in Q4 FY20 as against a loss of Rs 15 crore in the corresponding period of last year.
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Kolkata firm develops Rs 500 COVID testing kit
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 11 (ANI): A South 24 Parganas based private firm GCC Biotech India claimed it has developed indigenous 'real-time' COVID19 test kit costing only Rs 500 for a single test.
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ICMR partners with BBIL for developing indigenous COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi, May 9 [India], May 9 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday announced that it has partnered with the Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) to develop a fully indigenous vaccine for COVID-19 using the virus strain isolated at the National Institute o
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Sai Life Sciences joins the global 'COVID Moonshot' project
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India] May 7 (ANI/PRNewswire): Sai Life Sciences, one of India's fastest growing Contract Development & Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs), today announced its collaboration with the COVID Moonshot project that aims to deliver an antiviral drug candidate effectiv
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Union Health Minister asks DBT, others to fastrack development of COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan held a video-conferencing meeting with directors of Department of Biotechnology, its 18 autonomous bodies and PSUs and asked them to fastrack the activities pertaining to the development of the vaccine for COVID-19, sa
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Combating COVID-19: ICMR advises States to go for RT-PCR test
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday advised the State governments to go for the RT-PCR test, which "detects the virus early and is the best strategy to identify and isolate the individual."
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University of Hyderabad's start-up selected for COVID-19 research funding
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 27 (ANI): OncoSeek Bio Pvt Ltd, a start-up incubated at ASPIRE-BioNest, University of Hyderabad (UoH), has been selected for financial support for developing an in vitro lung organoid model by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)
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Faulty Rapid Antibody Testing kits provided by two Chinese manufactures un
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): Two Chinese manufactures of rapid antibody test, Guangzhou Wondfo Biotech Co., Ltd. and Zhuhai Livzon Diagnostics Inc are now the subject of investigations by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as the much-touted, rapid testing antibody kits o
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Combating COVID-19: DBT-BIRAC seek proposals on development of diagnostics
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI): The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) had invited applications on COVID-19 research consortium. The first phase of the call ended on March 30 and around 500 applications were received from acade
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Vaccine will be effective even if coronavirus mutates : ICMR
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): While scientists from government-run Biotechnology Research Centre in Gujarat claimed to have identified three new mutations of the COVID-19 in its genome sequencing, the top medical research body -- the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said
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Gujarat CMO hails Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre over COVID-19 geno
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], April 17 (ANI): The Chief Minister's Office, Gujarat, on Friday lauded the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre over the COVID-19 genome sequence.
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Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre does sequencing of coronavirus genom
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], April 17 (ANI): Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre has done the sequencing of the whole genome of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, said Jayanti Ravi, Principal Secretary-Health in the state government.
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