In a recent study, scientists from Medical University of South Carolina aimed to evaluate whether immunogenic cell death (ICD) can trigger resistance to anticancer therapies and explore potential therapeutic opportunities to revive ICD and restore drug sensitivity.
Zapata Computing Inc. (Zapata AI) scientists have demonstrated the first instance of a generative model running on quantum hardware outperforming state-of-the-art classical models in generating viable cancer drug candidates.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a severe condition characterized by vasoconstriction and remodeling of the small pulmonary arteries, driven by a complement-dependent activation of macrophages, for which an effective treatment is lacking. Chinese researchers have investigated the potential of a complement C3 inhibitor polypeptide, CP40-KK, as an approach for treating PAH. To do this, they used a model in which PAH was induced in rats by monocrotaline.
Autoantibodies call to mind disease – autoimmune disease, to be exact. But the physiological roles of autoantibodies are, at the very least, more complex than this view accounts for. “The autoantibody reactome is extraordinary,” Aaron Ring told BioWorld. “Nearly everyone has autoantibodies, whether they know it or not.”
Anadolu University and Atatürk University have jointly described novel 3,5-disubstituted-1,2,4-oxadiazole derived compounds acting as carbonic anhydrase type I and/or type II inhibitors.
Imidazotriazine derivatives acting as interleukin-17 (IL-17) modulators have been described in a UCB SA patent and are reported to be potentially useful for the treatment of inflammatory disorders and autoimmune diseases.
A Sanofi SA patent describes imidazopyridine compounds acting as mitogen-activated protein kinase 7 (MAPK7; ERK5) inhibitors and reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.