Release Therapeutics SA has announced that it has secured CHF3.3 million (US$3.87 million) in seed funding. The proceeds will be used to finance primate studies of the company’s cell macroencapsulation technology for use in metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD).
Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and affiliated organizations have presented data from a study that aimed to identify the prognostic markers related to abnormal methylation in ocular melanoma, including uveal melanoma (UM).
Meta Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that the FDA has granted rare pediatric disease designation to its investigational new drug META-001-PH for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria (PH), an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder in which oxalate is overproduced and deposited in the body.
Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. has announced its pandemic influenza vaccine is on track to enter a phase I clinical trial in Q4 of 2024. The vaccine, ARCT-2304, utilizes Arcturus’ STARR self-amplifying mRNA and LUNAR delivery platform technologies to deliver antigens designed to elicit a protective response against the H5N1 strain of avian influenza.
An abnormal epigenetic modification of RNA could be related to senescence and aging disorders, pointing towards the enzyme methyltransferase-like 1 (METTL1) as a potential therapeutic target.
Armed with $55 million in series A funds and a U.S. government contract, Cambridge, Mass.-based Red Queen Therapeutics Inc. launched operations this week, with plans to advance its novel stapled lipopeptide platform, which creates new antiviral therapies that do not rely on the immune system to work.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has discovered viral maturation inhibitors and their prodrugs reported to be useful for the treatment of HIV infection.
Incyte Corp. has synthesized diacylglycerol kinase α (DGK-α) and/or diacylglycerol kinase ζ (DGK-ζ) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
The University of Florida has prepared and tested PPARγ agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of diabetes, hyperparathyroidism, metabolic syndrome, multiple myeloma, nonalcoholic or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (NASH/MASH), obesity, osteoporosis and Paget disease, among others.
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