Stimulating the brain via implanted electrodes is used to treat both movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, and some psychiatric conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder. But researchers are also working on ways to make such implanted electrodes listen instead of talk – and translate neuronal signals for people that have lost the ability speak, or the ability to move. At the Neurophysiology: Decoding and Neural Processing II session of the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, researchers from the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering (Switzerland) presented a device implanted in the brain that allowed restoration of movement and speech. Read More
CD39 has an essential role in converting extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP; pro-inflammatory) into adenosine monophosphate (AMP; anti-inflammatory). Preventing the action of CD39 in the tumor microenvironment would increase levels of ATP, causing myeloid cell activation and improvement of tumor control. Read More
Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is involved in the regulation of calcium and its hyperactivation can lead to cardiac issues, particularly with rhythm and contraction. Read More
Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has entered a worldwide drug discovery collaboration agreement with Captor Therapeutics SA to develop novel small-molecule degrader drugs against a currently undrugged target of interest in neurodegenerative diseases. Read More
Eleusis Therapeutics US Inc. has synthesized aryl-ring-substituted 3-phenylazetidines acting as 5-HT2 receptor ligands reported to be useful for the treatment of chronic pain, depression, atherosclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, conjunctivitis, type 2 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, among others. Read More
Researchers from Aligos Therapeutics Inc. have described the discovery of novel liver-targeted oral PD-L1 small-molecule inhibitors for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and liver cancers. Read More
Increased expression and elevated levels of matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and MMP-9 play a role in impaired cardiac function. These MMPs make for essential targets in the treatment of heart failure, specifically heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Read More
Impact Therapeutics (Shanghai) Inc. has presented poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Researchers from Black Diamond Therapeutics Inc. presented the discovery and preclinical characterization of a novel brain-penetrant BRAF class I/II/III mutation inhibitor, BDTX-4933. Read More
Researchers from Totus Medicines Inc. presented preclinical data for the potent and selective covalent inhibitor of phosphoinositide 3-kinase α (PI3Kα), TOS-358, which is being developed for the treatment of cancer. Read More
New and updated preclinical data presented at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer's 37th Annual Meeting in Boston, by: Ankyra, Antengene, Artiva, Asher, Bluesphere, Catamaran, Cellectis, Century, Cytoimmune, Domain, Iconovir, Immunitas, Imugene, Imvax, Triumvira Immunologics, Tscan, Umoja. Read More
