Work at Aligos Therapeutics Inc. has led to the discovery of new programmed cell death 1 (PDCD1; PD-1; CD279)/PD-1 ligand 1 (PD-L1; CD274) interaction inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma and hepatitis B.
Blossomhill Therapeutics Inc. have identified 7-azaindazole macrocycles acting as ALK tyrosine kinase receptor (mutant) inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
Recent evidence in atopic dermatitis (AD) points to the involvement of additional pro-inflammatory pathways besides core Th2 responses. Current therapeutic approaches that work target mostly the IL-4/IL-13 pathway, but the duration of response and depth could be improved.
Hypertension is a frequent chronic condition commonly affecting the elderly, but its incidence is increasing among younger individuals. The estimates predict that 1.28 billion individuals aged 30-79 are currently living with hypertension worldwide. Despite the availability of effective treatments, monotherapy often leads to resistance and the management of adverse effects remains cumbersome.
Activation of cannabinoid receptors in the peripheral nervous system may help treat inflammatory and gastrointestinal disorders as well as pain, and several full agonists have been reported but they present safety concerns. Partial agonists, such as those that activate receptors to 20%-50% of full activity, may be safer, yet so far such agonists have emerged serendipitously.
In an isomerization reaction, uridine is modified to pseudouridine, the most abundant RNA modification which presents an extra hydrogen bond donor, altering the RNA structure and providing unique chemical properties.
Trogenix Ltd. has completed its series A financing, raising £70 million ($95 million) to support progression into the clinic of its pipeline of potentially curative cancer therapies across multiple aggressive solid tumors.
A major contributor to obesity-related pathology is inflammation involving a shift in macrophage polarization toward the inflammatory M1 phenotype and accumulation of such macrophages in the liver and adipose tissue. Activation of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) on macrophages leads the downstream adaptor protein MyD88 to promote M1 polarization through altered gene expression mediated by the transcription factor NF-κB.
At the recent European Respiratory Society meeting, researchers from 35Pharma Inc. presented data on HS-235, an activin receptor inhibitor designed to neutralize activins and growth differentiation factors (GDFs). Disorders such as heart failure (HF) and pulmonary hypertension (PH) are associated with dysregulated activin and GDFs without neutralizing bone morphogenetic proteins such as BMP-9 and BMP-10, which play key roles in lymphatic and vascular homeostasis.
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