A landmark, real-world study in the U.K. has demonstrated that combining whole genome sequencing with clinical data enabled tailored cancer treatment and improved outcomes. At one health care center, having DNA sequence data led to changes from usual standard of care in 25% of cases. “Mostly, [patients] got into clinical trials; some got medicines they wouldn’t have got. Others avoided medicines because their genetic make-up suggested that if they were exposed to the medicines, they would be at risk of harm,” said Mark Caulfield, professor of clinical pharmacology at Queen Mary University of London, who is co-author of a paper outlining the findings in Nature Medicine, Jan 11, 2024.
Amygdala Neurosciences Inc. has described aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of anxiety disorder, binge eating disorder, alcoholism, and amphetamine, cocaine, nicotine and opioid dependence.
C4 Therapeutics Inc. has divulged proteolysis targeting chimeric (PROTAC) compounds comprising a protein cereblon (CRBN) binding moiety covalently bound to a probable global transcription activator SNF2L2 (SMARCA2; BAF190B; SNF2-α)-targeting moiety through a linker.
Neuron23 Inc. has identified non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TYK2 (JH2 domain) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of neurological disorders.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is characterized by a high rate of neovascularization, giving tumoral cells access to nutrients and contributing to disease progression and metastasis.
CD38 is the main NAD+-hydrolyzing enzyme, and it also catabolizes nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and other extracellular NAD+ precursors prior to their intracellular transport for NAD+ biosynthesis.
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