Researchers from the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Munich have described a genetic overlap between type 2 diabetes (T2D), a disease that is also associated with obesity, and osteoarthritis, a degeneration of the joints that worsens with age and coincides in the factor risk of being overweight. The researchers used genetic data, multiomics and functional analysis of the tissues T2D and osteoarthritis express to identify which genes were associated and correlated with both diseases. They published their results on July 10, 2023, in The American Journal of Human Genetics.
Most drug developers working in the immunotherapy space focus on existing therapeutic targets when developing cancer drugs, optimizing ways of drugging them via engineering modalities such as CAR T-cell approaches, CRISPR editing or antibody-drug conjugates that deliver toxic payloads. The angle of one company – Cartography Biosciences – is the opposite to this. Its modus operandi is to pinpoint the immunological targets first, leveraging tools that already exist, before building therapies around them.
Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. has described bromodomain-containing protein 9 (BRD9) inhibitors or BRD9 degradation inducers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Aurigene Oncology Ltd. and Olema Pharmaceuticals Inc. have divulged fused benzoisoxazolyl compounds acting as histone acetyltransferase KAT6A (monocytic leukemia zinc finger protein; MOZ; MYST-3) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Researchers at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. have identified monoglyceride lipase (MGLL; MAGL) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, pain, cancer, diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome and psychiatric disorders.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. has disclosed pyrazolopyrimidine derivatives acting as DNA polymerase inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of herpes virus infection.
Researchers from Duke University presented the discovery and preclinical evaluation of [211At]YF-2, a next-generation prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radiopharmaceutical.
Maxcyte Inc. and Vittoria Biotherapeutics Inc. have signed a strategic platform license agreement for use of Maxcyte’s Flow Electroporation technology and Expert platform by Vittoria Biotherapeutics. Under the agreement, Vittoria will obtain nonexclusive clinical and commercial rights to use Maxcyte’s Flow Electroporation technology and Expert platform, and will pay Maxcyte platform licensing fees and program-related revenue.
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