The military pharmaceutical chemical plant in Florence fights Covid-19
Two hundred kilograms of hydroxychloroquine active ingredient are on their way from Asia to Florence. They will be used to make several hundred thousand capsules of the drug that is now experimentally tested as “anti-navirus”: it inhibits the heaviest...
Research and discoveries from two former SNS PhD students
Two former PhD students of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Rudy Ippodrino and Bruna Marini, are coordinators of an international collaboration that has led to further discoveries regarding the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The results obtained from the analysis of more than...
Anti Coronavirus visors from 3D printers thank to ISIA Florence
In Coronavirus times, the Tuscan university world also made its contribution. The ISIA University Institute of Design in Florence will create visor supports for use in the operating theatres of Tuscan hospitals. How? Thanks to 3D printing. After the test phase by...
GSK vaccines and Sanofi together to develop the Covid-19 vaccine
Sanofi and GSK have signed a letter of intent to enter into a collaboration to develop an adjuvanted vaccine for COVID-19, using innovative technology from both companies, to help address the ongoing pandemic. Sanofi will contribute its S-protein COVID-19 antigen,...