by Adre's IT | 9 March, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Alex Song, america, COVID-19, MIT, Pileus, The Nielsen Company, vaccines
A new approach to vaccines with a machine learning twist could put an end to boosters and seasonal variant shots, according to MIT researchers. This “pan-variant” vaccine would ignore the virus itself but quickly control infections by cracking down on...
by Adre's IT | 27 July, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Codefresh, COVID-19, Hardware, Health, Humans and technology, Startups
Biotech company Senzo just raised a $2 million round at a $20 million pre-money valuation to further extend options for lateral flow diagnostics. “Lateral flow,” in this case, is the same type of testing you’ve seen from at-home pregnancy or COVID-19...
by Adre's IT | 2 July, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Alex Song, Boeing, Business Impact, columbia, COVID-19, cubesat, Health, medical device, microblogging, obesity, Plasma, Science, TC, vaccines, Virus
Future COVID-19 vaccine boosters won’t have to go through a traditional, lengthy clinical trial process to attain emergency use authorization in the U.S., according to a report in Reuters. An agency official, speaking to the publication today, said that the U.S....
by Adre's IT | 25 June, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, antitrust, App Drivers & Couriers Union, chromium, COVID-19, David Marcus, food, Lidar, Michael Dearing, Original Content podcast, Paramark Ventures, S-1, stage, Startups, TC
It’s nearly been two months since we started this accidental weekly column about layoffs happening within startups. Workforce reductions have impacted startup employees in every massive sector, from crypto to SaaS to edtech and mobility. And what felt at first like...
by Adre's IT | 17 June, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, COVID-19, Health, TC
The government of Canada today announced that it is ending use of the app it commissioned based on the COVID-19 exposure alert API developed jointly by Google and Apple as a measure to help combat the spread of the illness. The system is disabled immediately,...
by Adre's IT | 17 June, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, COVID-19, czech republic, Health, medical device, Oxford, Plasma, Rory, TC, vaccines
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized use of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech, and from Moderna, for kids between six months and five years of age. The FDA’s decision follows a lengthy review process, and the dosage for children...
