Inclisiran’s inclusion on the 2020 Cortellis Drugs to Watch list is an example of target discovery possibilities hiding in plain sight – if companies and institutions are willing to put effort into increasing sample diversity in genomic research.
“Lack of knowledge is the true bottleneck to clinical translation. We need to stop telling basic scientists, especially trainees, that their work’s value lies in its translatability.” That is the unexpected advice of none other than William Kaelin Jr., whose scientific discoveries have proved to be both top-rate science and very translatable indeed. His work, for which Kaelin has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and a host of other awards, has enabled the development of multiple therapies targeting anemia and cancer, including vadadustat.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Online therapy for lingering depression could fill gap in care; UTHealth develops technology to differentiate between PD and multiple system atrophy; Myelin is deregulated in autism spectrum disorder.
BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: CD47 knockout improves antitumor vaccine; Multiple edits make for durable T cells; Endothelial cells have functional deficits in progeria; Myelin is deregulated in autism spectrum disorder; More enhancers suggest more pathogenicity: study; Just the vesicles, please; Distinguishing real from backseat drivers; Blocking bad bone; Plexin D1 is receptor and mechanosensor in 1; Monocytes have it both ways in DMD.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Raman spectroscopy to monitor blood glucose; A score to predict progressive chronic liver disease; From African genomes, big insights with small sample size.
The drug screens prompted by the SARS and MERS outbreaks have been useful for quickly identifying drug candidates. But in terms of their epidemiology, “SARS and MERS were different from this coronavirus,” Allison McGeer explained at a Feb. 3 webinar by Evercore ISI.
At this very early point in the emerging 2019-nCoV outbreak, knowledge about the virus is insufficient to predict what shape that outbreak will ultimately take. But knowledge about the virus is accumulating at remarkable speed, and experience with other viruses is helping to shape the response to the newest coronavirus threat. 2019-nCoV, sometimes called Wuhan coronavirus after its source, is the third coronavirus after SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV with the potential to cause serious illness and death that has emerged since the beginning of the 21st century.
BEIJING – The current speed of new developments in the 2019-nCov outbreak is illustrated by a Jan. 28, 2020, press conference in Munich, where Andreas Zapf, head of the infection task force in the Bavarian ministry for health and food safety, briefed reporters on the first confirmed German case.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: New algorithm can distinguish between subtypes in low-grade glioma; Different drivers can turn the wheel in glioblastoma’s vicious cycle; Commercial antibodies underwhelm for studies of PP2A; Foundation awards more than $1M for cancer research; Protons better for sparing cognitive function in pediatric patients.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Long QT genes mostly short on evidence; Cerebrospinal fluid is early culprit in stroke edema; Regenerative HBOT protocols appear to improve cardiac function in healthy aging heart population; Blood test IDs risk of disease linked to stroke, dementia.
