Dans l’océan de grisailles auquel la pandémie de Covid-19 nous a habitués depuis de longs mois, les bonnes nouvelles concernant le vaccin tombent l’une après l’autre depuis quelques jours. Pfizer puis Moderna annoncent des vaccins imminents, efficaces à plus de 90 %. Le bout du tunnel serait donc proche ? Peut-on
PlusLa pandémie est une aubaine pour ceux qui veulent gagner des millions. Le 9 novembre dernier, alors que Pfizer annonçait « une efficacité à 90% » de son vaccin en expérimentation, son patron Albert Bourla vendait pour 5,6 millions de dollars d’actions du laboratoire américain. Ce jour-là l’action avait gagné
PlusAprès l’annonce du laboratoire Pfizer affirmant détenir un vaccin efficace à 90 %, le débat sur la vaccination s’ouvre et promet d’être houleux. Nous versons ici une première tribune signée par la britannique Melinda Mills, professeur à l’Université d’Oxford, et auteur du rapport de l’Académie britannique et de la Royal
PlusDès son annonce hier 9 novembre, le vaccin de l’américain Pfizer associé à l’allemand BioNTech, « efficace à 90 % », a fait la une de tous les médias et provoqué une flambée des Bourses occidentales. Il est évident qu’un vaccin éliminerait une grande partie de nos soucis, le monde respirerait et
PlusTandis que les laboratoires Pfizer annoncent que leur « candidat » vaccin anti Covid-19 est efficace à 90%, faisant s’envoler toutes les Bourses, que Sanofi vient de démarrer les essais sur l’homme de son potentiel vaccin, les Français se montrent bien plus réticents que la moyenne de la population mondiale à se
PlusWe know more or less well how the Covid-19 outbreak started: probably because of bats, near Wuhan in China. What no one knows yet is how the pandemic will end. This coronavirus is unprecedented in the combination of its easy transmissibility, a series of
PlusSanofi, by announcing that the United States would be the first to distribute a potential vaccine against Covid-19, provoked anger and indignation. COVID-19 has no nation or ethnicity. If the pandemic is not monitored in one country, it will accelerate beyond the borders of that country.
PlusThere is every indication that the coronavirus that is shaking the world could establish itself as an endemic virus, present for a long time, with seasonal peaks in virulence. In this hypothesis, medical experts fear that there may not be enough vaccine for everyone. According to the scientists, it would be necessary to vaccinate
PlusEpidemiological studies suggest that the world's oldest vaccine, the BCG used against tuberculosis, may reduce the risk of coronavirus infection as well as the risk of severe forms of Covid-19 disease. Professor Camille Locht, director of INSERM research at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, is the author of this study.
PlusThe United States has taken the option of having hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine manufactured, even before clinical trials have begun. They want to be ready for the market before others are. A risk in the form of a poker strike.
PlusBritish American Tobacco, the manufacturer of cigarette brands such as Lucky Strike, Dunhill, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges, said a potential vaccine against coronavirus was being developed from tobacco plants. According to the firm, tobacco plants cannot, by their nature, be used to produce a vaccine,
PlusScientists from one of the world's leading epidemiology centres, the American Johns Hopkins University, have just published an article that opens up unexpected prospects in these gloomy epidemic times. They explain how viral antibodies, contained in the blood serum of patients cured of coronavirus, could then be used to treat the disease.
PlusThe coronavirus pandemic that has hit the world requires a war effort. On the front lines, biotech labs are working tirelessly to discover new weapons to treat and test affected patients and to contain the epidemic in the long term. European laboratories, which are among
PlusCela fait vingt-cinq ans que l’on nous parle d’un vaccin contre le Sida. Dès 1984 les services de santé publique parlent d’un vaccin imminent. Force est de constater que, malgré l’acharnement d’équipes de scientifiques partout dans le monde, le vaccin se fait encore attendre. Où en sommes-nous, à quel horizon
PlusIt is a highly contagious disease that was thought to have been eradicated by vaccination. Before the vaccine, up to two and a half million people died each year from measles. Thanks to vaccination campaigns, the disease should have disappeared completely. Today, however, there is a health alert all over the world.
PlusIs this the end of the shots to make vaccines? They have traumatized dozens of generations of children and will probably soon be discarded. To replace them, scientists, who are never short of imagination, have invented a self-motorized pill that swallows itself in the simplest way possible and will
PlusLet us not celebrate victory too soon and let us not raise undue hopes. The long-awaited cancer vaccine is not going to be on the pharmacy shelves tomorrow morning. But researchers at Stanford University have completed some very promising experiments that they have just published. Their
PlusThe exhibition "Pasteur, the experimenter", presented from 12 December 2017 to 19 August 2018 at the Palais de la découverte, looks back at man and the work of the scientist; it seeks to explain the context of his work, his discoveries and their applications, beyond the legend. An exhibition that finds
PlusA research project developed by British scientists from the University of York and the University of Leeds has established how to write code that can govern the assembly of viruses. In other words, the researchers claim to be able to write code to control the
PlusUne étude à un stade encore préliminaire sur un vaccin contre le VIH a donné des résultats “encourageants”, une note d’optimisme alors que la recherche a jusqu’ici échoué à mettre au point un vaccin efficace pour protéger de ce virus. Testé chez 393 volontaires dans cinq pays (Etats-Unis, Rwanda,
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