At this week’s American Chemical Society Spring meeting, Galderma SA reported the discovery of novel, oral and selective macrocyclic inhibitors of protein kinase C θ (PKCθ) for the potential treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD) and psoriasis.
A variant burden analysis for bipolar disorder was performed using gene-based aggregation of loss-of-function variants in whole-genome sequencing data from Iceland and the UK Biobank; the association between bipolar disorder and the burden of loss-of-function variants was tested in 13,786 genes.
Research published online in Nature on March 19, 2025, closely examines the changes occurring in the gastric epithelium during the progression toward cancer development. Certain mutations that occur in normal, nonreproductive cells over time can make these cells more prone to becoming cancerous later. The project began as a collaboration between the labs of Mike Stratton at the Sanger Institute and Suet Yi Leung from the University of Hong Kong, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation.
Maze Therapeutics Inc. has disclosed new sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter B(0)AT1 (SLC6A19) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of phenylketonuria, metabolic syndrome, hyperphenylalaninemia, tyrosinemia, isovaleric acidemia, propionic acidemia, maple syrup urine disease and chronic kidney disease, among others.
Work at Purdue Research Foundation has led to the identification of prodrugs of nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
rietis Corp. and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Inc. have jointly patented compounds acting as caseinolytic protease P (ClpP) (bacterial) activators and RNA polymerase (bacterial) inhibitors and their conjugates with rifamycin analogues reported to be useful for the treatment of gram-positive bacterial infection.
Patents from Oncopia Therapeutics Inc. (dba SK Life Science Labs) describe proteolysis targeting chimeric (PROTACs) compounds reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.
In a recently published study, researchers from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Italy used data from a previous high-throughput screening using human miRNA mimics and selected miR-148a-3p as a therapeutic target.
Researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences detailed the creation of a new dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-based mouse model of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy-associated colitis.
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