BIO.News Newsletter

ICYMI: New SEC rules that went into effect yesterday will help small biotechs research the medicines we need for COVID-19 and many other diseases. There's also more news on one BIO member doing incredible research with animal biotech to help humans fight this pandemic. Here are around 800 words, 4 minutes.

It’s World Immunization Awareness Week, with the theme Vaccines Work for All. The world is watching the biotech industry race to find a COVID-19 vaccine—yet anti-vaccination rhetoric is, unfortunately, alive and well. Today’s new episode of the I AM BIO Podcast explores the importance of vaccines, and how a COVID-19 vaccine will bring the world out of this crisis. Here are around 730 words, 3 minutes, 30 seconds.

For your weekend listening, we have a new episode of the I AM BIO Podcast with a world-renowned zoonotic disease expert who explores the origins of the coronavirus—and some of it may surprise you. Here are 605 words, or 3 minutes.

Mark your stay-at-home calendar! Next Tuesday, April 28, join Medexprim and Graticule for a free webinar on how global collaboration can help us build much-needed real-world data for treating COVID-19. Click here to register...because if there's one thing we love more than Netflix right now, it's collaboration. Today, we have an update on the global food supply chain and why One Health matters, plus links to Johnson & Johnson’s new web series about a COVID-19 vaccine, in around 715 words, or 3…

Microsoft has teamed up with BIO members Takeda and CSL Behring to recruit patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma—yet another shining example of how the industry is coming together to collaborate in innovative ways to defeat this thing. In other news, today we're celebrating 50 years of Earth Day—and we’re taking a look at the links between humans, animals, and the environment and what it means for the pandemic. We’ve also got an update from Pew on the antibiotic…

Microsoft has teamed up with BIO members Takeda and CSL Behring to recruit patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma—yet another shining example of how the industry is coming together to collaborate in innovative ways to defeat this thing. In other news, today we're celebrating 50 years of Earth Day—and we’re taking a look at the links between humans, animals, and the environment and what it means for the pandemic. We’ve also got an update from Pew on the antibiotic…

Another Tuesday. Our industry’s still working hard on coronavirus breakthroughs—but some lawmakers want to put those vaccines and treatments at risk by making changes to the Bayh-Dole Act, which helps partnerships and R&D happen. We discuss why the law matters more than ever, plus a look at how your coffee habit could help clean up the planet and provide the products we need, in about 660 words, or 3 minutes, 20 seconds.

The experts warned us. But luckily, they know what to do now. We’re kicking off Monday with lessons from the past and a look at what's in the future, in around 730 words, or 3 minutes, 40 seconds.

Yes, this virus is bad, as Dr. George Scangos of Vir Biotechnology explains in the latest episode of the I AM BIO Podcast—but we have some promising news from Gilead and SAB Biotherapeutics today, too. Here are 760 words, just under 4 minutes. Enjoy the weekend.

It’s Thursday. Today, we look at how America’s biotech industry is tackling both the coronavirus and climate change—and why large-scale global action is possible on both, in about 770 words, just under 4 minutes.