WSJ – Researchers Ready Lab-Grown Covid-19 Delta Variant for Human Trials August 27, 2021 – Posted in: Blog, Open Orphan (ORPH)

U.K. company is growing the highly contagious variant under tight lab controls for use in challenge studies Scientists have coaxed the Delta strain to mature, said Andrew Catchpole, chief scientiic oficer of trial partner hVivo. PHOTO: HVIVO SERVICES LIMITED by Jenny Strasburg – Wall Street Journal LONDON—While the rest of the world is trying to stamp out the Covid-19 Delta variant, British researchers are making progress growing a carefully controlled batch in a lab that…