Clostridioides difficile has been traditionally isolated from healthcare facilities' inpatients, but it is increasingly being identified in people who have not recently been hospitalized and is more and more found in community settings. Investigators from Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania have developed an mRNA-LNP vaccine with promising results in preventing and controlling C. difficile infection.
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the science of protein structure. David Baker was awarded half the prize “for computational protein design,” according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Hassabis and Jumper shared the other half “for protein structure prediction.”
Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. has entered into an artificial Intelligence and machine learning research collaboration with X-Chem Inc. to accelerate development of Tonix’s oral broad-spectrum antivirals for medical countermeasures.
It’s hard to know where to start in describing the biopharma applications of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. It was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Southern Research Institute and UAB Research Foundation have jointly described pyrazolopyrimidines acting as bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4; HUNK1) and/or receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 3 (RIPK3) and/or interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibitors.
Atai Therapeutics Inc. has identified 3-alkylamine indole compounds acting as 5-HT2A receptor agonists and reported to be potentially useful for the treatment of anxiety, eating and neurological disorders.
Miralinc Pharma Inc. has patented new heterocyclic selective histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of type 2 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, among others.
Humanwell Pharmaceutical US Inc. has synthesized new sigma non-opioid intracellular receptor 1 (SIGMAR1) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, pain, psychosis and substance abuse and dependence.
The central nervous system (CNS) in adult mammals has limited regeneration capacity, and traumatic injuries to the CNS usually lead to permanent functional impairment.