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Musculoskeletal

Lack of NAD does not alter muscle function or accelerate aging

May 5, 2025
By Mar de Miguel
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Adult skeletal muscle tolerates a lack of the coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), according to a study led by scientists at the University of Copenhagen. Their results suggest that adverse effects previously associated with congenital NAD depletion in this tissue may be due to impaired muscle development rather than to a deficiency of this molecule.
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South Korea approves record number of biosimilars in 2024

April 30, 2025
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved 18 biosimilar products in 2024, making it a record year for domestic biosimilar approvals since the agency’s first nod of Celltrion Inc.’s Remsima, a reference product of Remicade (infliximab), in 2012.
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Musculoskeletal

New tolerogenic antigen-specific vaccine boosts VISTA+ Tregs and prevents arthritis in RA model

April 29, 2025
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder marked by joint inflammation, cartilage loss and bone damage. Although biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs have improved treatment outcomes, the disease remains incurable.
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Musculoskeletal

Shanghai Qilu Pharmaceutical discovers new immunoproteasome inhibitors

April 28, 2025
Shanghai Qilu Pharmaceutical Research and Development Centre Ltd. has described immunoproteasome inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus and arthritis.
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‘Complement’-ary approaches? FcRn holds ground in myasthenia gravis

April 21, 2025
By Randy Osborne
Watchers of the percolating myasthenia gravis space are waiting eagerly for data from Dianthus Therapeutics Inc.’s phase II Magic study testing DNTH-103, an active C1s inhibitor, compared to placebo in patients with anti-AChR-positive generalized disease.
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Remegen’s lupus drug surfaces with phase III myasthenia gravis data

April 15, 2025
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
Remegen Co. Ltd. emerged as a surprise challenger in the generalized myasthenia gravis space, unveiling positive phase III data of its China-approved lupus drug, telitacicept (RCT-18; Tai’ai), in the rare autoimmune neuromuscular disorder at the 2025 American Academy of Neurology conference.
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Neurosense phase II combo to hail new Paradigm in ALS?

April 9, 2025
By Randy Osborne
As developers continue to search for better amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) therapies, Neurosense Therapeutics Ltd. turned up some hopeful findings from its phase IIb Paradigm trial with PrimeC. The drug, a combination therapy (ciprofloxacin and celecoxib) designed to target multiple ALS pathways, is having salutary effects on microRNA modulation (miRNA), Neurosense said, with the study showing a “profound and consistent” downregulation of 161 mature miRNAs across all time points in the double-blind period of the experiment.
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Remegen’s lupus drug surfaces with phase III myasthenia gravis data

April 9, 2025
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
Remegen Co. Ltd. emerged as a surprise challenger in the generalized myasthenia gravis space, unveiling positive phase III data of its China-approved lupus drug, telitacicept (RCT-18; Tai’ai), in the rare autoimmune neuromuscular disorder at the 2025 American Academy of Neurology conference.
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Cartesian math works out nicely in phase IIb MG trial

April 8, 2025
By Randy Osborne
Cartesian Therapeutics Inc. followed up December’s phase IIb data with more good news regarding Descartes-08, offering 12-month efficacy and safety results that whetted Wall Street’s appetite for the phase III Aurora effort ahead. Milos Miljkovic, chief medical officer, told BioWorld that minimum symptom expression – among the areas where Descartes-08 shone, providing relief for “months and months after the last dose of treatment” – is especially important to patients.
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Dock7-mutant zebrafish show disrupted skeletal muscle myofiber structure and reduced locomotion

March 28, 2025
Previous studies have shown that protein expression of DOCK7 is increased in skeletal muscle biopsies from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), leading researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and affiliated organizations to assess the functional impact of DOCK7 on normal muscle and embryonic development of zebrafish.
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