Starting with a study of how mutations affect sensitivity to 10 molecularly targeted drugs, researchers have laid the foundations for a prospective, systematic approach to understanding the genetic mechanisms behind cancer drug resistance. These insights will inform the development of drugs that avoid resistance emerging. For existing drugs, it will be possible to better tailor treatment and to identify second-line therapies for patients whose tumors become resistant.
During an Innovation Ignited webinar sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, experts talked about how precision medicine has helped advance the field of oncology and how those lessons can be applied to immunology. Advancements in precision medicine have helped oncologists know which drugs are most likely to help patients as their tumors advance and mutate.
Shaanxi Micot Technology Co. Ltd. has described theophylline derivatives acting as anticoagulant reversal agents reported to be useful for the treatment of hemorrhagic disorders.
Xuanzhu Pharma Co. Ltd. has divulged cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme, mitochondrial (CYP11A1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Wigen Biomedicine Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has identified compounds acting as diacylglycerol kinase ζ (DGK-ζ, DGKZ) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Shanghai Meiyue Biotech Development Co. Ltd. has synthesized spiro compounds acting as complement factor B (CFB) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, glomerulonephritis, atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, membranous nephropathy, myasthenia gravis, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, diabetic retinopathy and rheumatoid arthritis, among others.
Among the mechanisms causing calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) are mitochondrial dysfunction and immune cell infiltration, but it is not well understood just how they impact CAVD pathogenesis.
Prostate cancer accounts for 3.8% of total cancer-related deaths worldwide. The combination of docetaxel and androgen deprivation therapy is useful in the management of the disease, but unfortunately, prostate cancer cells become resistant to docetaxel over time.
Researchers from Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA published new clinical data for CHF-6467, a recombinant modified form of human nerve growth factor (NGF), being evaluated for the treatment of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
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