FFA1 and FFA4 receptor agonists disclosed in Dartmouth College patent

Oct. 29, 2024

Dartmouth College has divulged fatty acid mimetics acting as free fatty acid FFA1 receptor (GPR40) and/or FFA4 receptor (GPR120) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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ABL Bio’s Grabody lands second $2.6B deal, this time with Lilly

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ABL Bio Inc. inked a license and research agreement with Eli Lilly and Co. worth up to $2.6 billion to develop multiple therapeutics using the Grabody-B platform....

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Anchoring, and bootstrapping, psychiatry into the precision medicine era

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Psychiatry has struggled to enter the precision medicine era. But through a mix of innovations and bootstrapping, progress is coming to the field. Scientists are...

With transdiagnostic approach, smaller target groups aren’t inevitably smaller markets

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Despite the formidable challenges for developing precision psychiatry, the approach is notching its first successes in the preclinical and even some clinical...