Neuroinflammation underlies neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other brain disorders. The stimulation of nicotinic α7 receptors, involved in the regulation of neuroinflammation, has shown efficacy in improving memory and learning in AD models.
A novel gene therapy that leads to cellular rejuvenation could restore vision after non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) and glaucoma. The technique is based on a reprogramming process that reverses the epigenetic DNA alterations caused by aging. Preclinical studies in glaucoma mice and nonhuman primates (NHP) models for this stroke-like disorder that affects the eye, showed an improvement of vision and restoration of the damaged axons of the optic nerve.
Immunotherapy based on T cells is the vanguard of cancer treatments. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have shown that similar approaches using T cells could be applied for treating injuries of the central nervous system (CNS). They reported their findings in Nature on Sept. 4, 2024.
Candid Therapeutics Inc. launched with ex-China control of two bispecific T-cell engager antibodies that it plans to develop for autoimmune diseases. The San Diego-based company will start off with a pocketful of cash, having raised over $370 million for the development of the in-licensed candidates.
Cascade Pharmaceuticals Inc. has disclosed new thyroid hormone receptor β (THRβ) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), hypothyroidism, atherosclerosis and dyslipidemia.
New miR-124 activators have been reported in a recent Nanjing Synnocare Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. patent as potentially useful for the treatment of Alzheimer type dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and viral infections.
IRCCS San Raffaele, Universita Degli Studi Di Perugia and Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele have jointly developed new oxysterols receptor LXR-α (NR1H3; LXRA) and/or LXR-β (NR1H2; LXRB) antagonists reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory and immunological disorders.
A Scandiedge Therapeutics AB patent details compounds targeting pyruvate kinase PKLR reported to be useful for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and hepatocellular carcinoma.
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