Liraglutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist used in diabetes and obesity, could alleviate depression through a pathway that does not depend on the GLP-1 receptor but instead on the gut microbiota, since the treatment increases the presence of the bacterium Lactobacillus delbrueckii. This symbiotic microorganism produces a lipid that modulates neuronal activity, normalizing the hyperactivation of brain regions in mice involved in emotional processing, which ultimately reduces depressive behaviors.
Scientists at Columbia University have used base editing to make precise changes in the genomes of human embryos, avoiding the damage to chromosomes that occurs following two-stranded DNA cuts with conventional CRISPR/Cas9 editing.
Jiangsu Nhwa Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has disclosed κ-opioid receptor antagonists that are potentially useful for the treatment of neurological disorders.
Shenzhen Chipscreen Biosciences Co. Ltd. has divulged histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors found to be potentially useful for the treatment of cancer.
Shanghai Curegene Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has identified thyroid hormone receptor β (THR-β) agonists that are potentially useful for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD; NAFLD), diabetes and obesity.
Scientists from the Purdue Research Foundation have prepared and tested prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeting ligands covalently linked to the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor niraparib through a releasable, reductively cleavable NADS linker.
Researchers from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine described the role of TRIM54 in cirrhosis progression using two independent animal models of chronic liver injury – a DEN-induced rat model and a CCl4-induced mouse model of liver cirrhosis.
Therorna Shanghai Co. Ltd. has presented data on TI-0032, an anti-CD19 CAR circular RNA therapeutic delivered by lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for the treatment of autoimmune and hematological disorders.
Antengene Corp. Ltd. has obtained IND approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for ATG-201 for the treatment of B-cell related autoimmune diseases.
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