The sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus, which carpets the Caribbean seafloor, may hold the key to eliminating the senescent cells that survive cancer therapy. A collaboration led by Spanish scientists across several international research centers has discovered a new type of toxin that selectively eliminates senescent cancer cells.

Newco Tecregen AG has raised CHF10 million (US$12.5 million) to advance a novel way of regenerating the thymus in order to boost T-cell production and stimulate recovery of the immune system following stem cell transplants and chemo- and radiotherapy.

Disruption of alternative splicing can generate abnormal mRNA variants, producing nonfunctional proteins or triggering nonsense-mediated decay, and is implicated in many splicing-related diseases. Therapeutic approaches that modulate splicing, therefore, hold promise to redirect aberrant transcripts toward normal isoforms and reestablish functional protein expression.

The treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections is significantly challenged by the pathogen’s diverse resistance mechanisms, with biofilm formation being a key driver of antibiotic tolerance. Furthermore, P. aeruginosa pathogenicity is amplified by virulence factors that both evade host defenses and facilitate biofilm development.

Adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR) is the enzyme responsible for adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing, a process essential for regulating how cells respond to double-stranded RNA. ADAR1 generates two isoforms, p150 and p110, with distinct roles in cancer biology. Researchers from the Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology reported the preclinical characterization of ADAR1-i-124, an ADAR1 inhibitor designed for the treatment of cancer.