IMAGE: THIS TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE IMAGE SHOWS SARS-COV-2, THE VIRUS THAT CAUSES COVID-19, ISOLATED FROM A PATIENT IN THE U.S. VIRUS PARTICLES ARE SHOWN EMERGING FROM THE SURFACE OF CELLS CULTURED IN THE LAB. THE SPIKES ON THE OUTER EDGE OF THE VIRUS PARTICLES GIVE CORONAVIRUSES THEIR NAME, CROWN-LIKE. CREDIT: CREDIT: NIAID-RML LA JOLLA—A new...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Moderna said Wednesday that tainted batches of its COVID-19 vaccine sent to Japan were contaminated with stainless steel particles, but the company did not expect it posed “an undue risk to patient safety.” The US biotech firm is facing major setbacks in Japan, with hundreds of thousands of doses suspended following...
The Moderna vaccine is one of the vaccines currently available in the United States and other countries to protect against COVID-19, which is the disease the novel coronavirus causes. Clinical trials and real world data suggest that the Moderna vaccine effectively and safely protects adults against the virus and its complications. This article will discuss...
by Antonio Regalado archive page January 13, 2021 Moderna office in Cambridge, MassachusettsWIKIMEDIA COMMONShide Covid vaccines reprogrammed to aim at emerging new strains of the virus could reach the market quickly, without going through large clinical trials, according to officials at Moderna Therapeutics and the US government. As researchers identify mutated versions of the coronavirus that causes...
