Eurocine Vaccines AB has reported findings from preclinical studies evaluating its mRNA and protein technology platforms for its therapeutic herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) vaccine candidates. Initial results from the study, comparing the two technology platforms at multiple doses, demonstrate that the mRNA and the protein vaccines were well tolerated and generated T-cell and antibody responses.
CRISPR gene editing has been one of the important advances of the last decade, in biotechnology and increasingly in medicine. First applied to human cells in 2013, and honored with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, its meteoric rise can make CRISPR look like the molecular equivalent of a miracle healer. But in the research and clinical trenches, CRISPR-based approaches, like any others, need to find applications where their desired effects outweigh their side effects. And finding those applications necessitates ways to identify off-target effects.
Medshine Discovery Inc. has divulged benzospiroheterocyclic derivatives acting as prostaglandin E receptor 4 (PTGER4; EP4 receptor) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Glycomimetics Inc. has identified glycosides acting as galectin-3 (LGALS3) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammation, thrombosis, cardiovascular disorders, transplant rejection, neurodegeneration, fibrosis and liver diseases, among other disorders.
Hibercell Inc. has disclosed aminopyrimidine derivatives acting as phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate 4-kinase type II α (PIP4K2A; PIP5K2A) and type II β (PIP4K2B; PIP5K2B) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, neurodegeneration, inflammation and metabolic diseases.
Ordaōs Bio Inc. has entered into a joint development agreement with Yatiri Bio Inc. to create new therapeutics for two novel targets in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Neurophth Therapeutics Inc. has received FDA clearance of its IND application for the in vivo gene replacement therapy NFS-02, a novel recombinant adeno-associated viral serotype 2 vector (rAAV2) containing a codon-optimized NADH-dehydrogenase subunit 1 (ND1) gene, for the treatment of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) associated with ND1 mutation.
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