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India one step closer to manufacturing key drugs to treat Covid-19

[ad_1] The Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) has synthesized Key Starting Materials (KSM) for Remdesivir, the first step in developing the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a drug. IICT has also started so-called technology demos for drug makers like Cipla so that manufacturing can start in India if needed. …

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A step towards heat tolerant wheat production.

[ad_1] Plants have Rubisco Activase (Rca) that tells the plant’s energy-producing compound (Rubisco) to start up in sunlight and tells it to stop when the leaf is deprived of light to conserve energy. Now, scientists are swapping just one 380 molecular building block that forms an Rca in wheat. Doing …

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The new COVID-19 vaccine is promising in monkeys. Next step: humans.

[ad_1] An experimental COVID-19 vaccine protected the monkeys from contracting the viral infection, according to an unrevised report. The new vaccine has now entered clinical trials in china to test the drug in humans. Although the animal study, published April 19 in the prepress database bioRxiv, not formally reviewed, scientists …

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