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Vaccine race accelerates, as Moderna-NIH partnership drug induces immune responses in all Phase 1 volunteers
[E]arly results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on [July 14], showed that [Moderna’s COVID-19] vaccine worked to ...

3 experimental COVID-19 vaccines set for critical testing phase this summer
The federal government plans to fund and conduct the decisive studies of three experimental coronavirus vaccines starting this summer, according ...

Infographic: Racing to create affordable at-home test for COVID-19
To stretch beyond the lab, test developers are racing to produce next-stage technologies that could allow for rapid widespread testing ...

Viewpoint: US government’s coronavirus response a ‘living nightmare’
It sounds like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has become completely dysfunctional. The Secretary, Dr. Azar (ex-lobbyist ...

‘All of Us’: NIH precision medicine study will share genetic data with participants, offer counseling
The nearly 200,000 Americans who have trusted federal scientists with their DNA, their medical records, and detailed behavioral surveys will ...

FDA mulling whether patients should have to pay to join clinical trials
Some [clinical trials] plan to ask participants to pay $7,000 or so to enroll. Another wanted to ask for upward ...

Tired all the time? Searching for genetic links to chronic fatigue syndrome
The hard-to-define and hard-to-diagnose condition continues to baffle researchers searching for its root causes -- and potential treatments ...

‘Google’ for biomedical data could improve our understanding of diseases, improve treatments
If we aggregated all the data from countless years of research, might we learn something new about ourselves, the diseases ...

Bioweapons research gets quiet OK from National Institutes of Health: Here’s why that could be ‘horrific’
For more than a decade now, two scientists–one in the U.S. and one in the Netherlands–have been trying to create ...