Six main cell types form glioblastomas (GBM), the most aggressive brain cancer due to its high rate of recurrence. Of these six, quiescent cancer stem cells are responsible for resistance to therapy and the reappearance of the tumor, according to a study that identified the six groups and highlighted the importance of these stem cells for the design of more effective therapies.
Complex genomic rearrangements (CGRs) involve large-scale genomic alterations with multiple breakpoints and are implicated in genetic diseases such as malformation syndromes, intellectual disability and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Ifast Diagnostics Ltd. raised $6.5 million (£5 million) in seed funding to bring its rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform to the market. The company’s technology is vital in the fight against antimicrobial resistance and the funds will be used to conduct clinical trials to get the product to the market in the U.K., U.S. and EU, CEO Toby King, told BioWorld.
Setonix Pharmaceuticals has described peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) modulators reported to be useful for the treatment of inflammatory disorders, metabolic syndrome, obesity, viral infection, cancer, lipid metabolism and glucose metabolism disorders.
Lysoway Therapeutics Inc. has synthesized mucolipin-1 (MCOLN1; TRPML1) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, aging, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and type C Niemann-Pick disease.
Scientists at Meta Pharmaceutical (HK) Ltd. and Shenzhen Moyuan Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. have disclosed lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, allergy, among others.
Nonselective poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors have shown antitumoral activity, but they are tied to hematotoxicity, most probably due to PARP2 inhibition. Instead, selective PARP inhibitors retain antitumoral activity without risking PARP2-related toxicity.
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