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Microsoft built a ‘Plasma Bot’ to tell you if you can donate plasma to help fight COVID-19

Plasma taken from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients stands a real change of being one of the more effective short-term measures feasible in the ongoing effort to control the global coronavirus pandemic. The FDA has issued a broad call for donation from eligible individuals, and now Microsoft has built…

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Emergent BioSolutions gets $14.5M in federal funding to expedite COVID-19 plasma therapy development

Last week, we spoke to the Head of Emergent BioSolutions’ Therapeutics Business Unit Dr. Laura Saward about her company’s work developing plasma-based potential treatments for COVID-19. Now, the company announced that it has received $14.5 million in funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), which is part…

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