Donald Trump‘s antibody treatment was developed with cells which are ultimately derived from an aborted fetus, it has emerged. The Regeneron ‘antibody cocktail’ administered to the president was tested using a supply of HEK 293T human cells, which have been cloned and modified in science labs for decades but originate from the kidney of an aborted … Read more
The US could have up to 300,000 doses of Regeneron’s antibody treatment for coronavirus this fall, White House officials and the company said Thursday. ‘We’ve applied the same methods to supporting therapeutics [as the government has to vaccine development] too,’ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Alex Azar said during a Thursday Goldman … Read more
BREAKING: Trump says getting COVID-19 was a ‘blessing from God’ because he got Regeneron’s coronavirus antibody cocktail which he falsely calls ‘a cure,’ as he claims it will soon get emergency FDA approval and be FREE for all Americans President Trump said that he thinks the antibody cocktail he received to treat coronavirus is a ‘cure’ … Read more
A potential new coronavirus antibody treatment made by a British pharmaceutical giant has moved into late stage trials. Brentford-based GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said its treatment – known as Vir-7831 – could be rolled out by 2021 if its proven to be effective and safe. The drug uses antibodies – proteins found in people who have survived Covid-19 … Read more
UK buys a million DIY coronavirus antibody tests that produce results in just 20 MINUTES – six months after they were first promised by officials At-home fingerprick tests described as ‘game changers’ by officials in March Officials have rejected all of those commercially available until now Tests will be used by people at home to … Read more
Most accurate coronavirus antibody testing kits revealed: Three finger-prick tests ‘are as accurate as sophisticated lab analysis’ with 98% accuracy Finger prick antibody tests can be used to tell if someone has already had Covid Researchers compared the top commercial testing kits available to hospitals They found all of them had a 95 per cent … Read more
Doctors in the UK will trial an experimental ‘antibody cocktail’ medicine on patients in hospital with Covid-19. The Oxford University team behind the pioneering RECOVERY trial in Britain, which discovered that the steroid dexamethasone can save patients’ lives, have announced the newest addition to their study. It is a therapy called REGN-COV2 made by the … Read more
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is now injecting volunteers with its new antibody treatment for Covid-19 in a bid to see if it will protect people and also help patients who are already ill. The British company, which is also manufacturing an experimental jab developed by experts at Oxford University, hope the monoclonal antibody therapy will prove … Read more
New experimental coronavirus vaccine prevented severe disease in mice after two doses of the jab boosted their antibody levels 90-fold Researchers genetically modified vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which causes a mild illness in livestock, to become a vaccine The team took out a gene from VSV and inserted the spike protein from the coronavirus, which … Read more
Large numbers of people hit by coronavirus could be being missed due to failures in antibody tests for those with only mild infections, according to researchers at Oxford University. A study of more than 9,000 healthcare workers found that significant numbers of people had received negative test results despite being likely to have already contracted Covid-19. … Read more