Starting with a study of how mutations affect sensitivity to 10 molecularly targeted drugs, researchers have laid the foundations for a prospective, systematic approach to understanding the genetic mechanisms behind cancer drug resistance. These insights will inform the development of drugs that avoid resistance emerging. For existing drugs, it will be possible to better tailor treatment and to identify second-line therapies for patients whose tumors become resistant. Read More
Investigators from the University of Michigan and affiliated organizations published data from a study that aimed to investigate the role of cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) in prostate cancer (PCa). Both in vivo and in vitro systems were developed to test the impact of Cdk12 ablation in the context PCa. Read More
Clostridioides difficile, a spore-forming and anaerobic gram-positive bacterium, causes a wide-spectrum diarrheal disease that can ultimately lead to life-threatening conditions such as toxic megacolon or colonic perforation. Read More
Seaport Therapeutics Inc. has closed an oversubscribed $225 million series B financing round to support its work developing novel neuropsychiatric medicines. Read More
Caraway Therapeutics Inc. patents describe new mucolipin (MCOLN; TRPML) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of aging, cancer, ciliopathies, glycogen and lysosomal storage diseases, macular degeneration, neurodegeneration and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney. Read More
The anti-HER2 biparatopic antibody (bpAb) KJ-015 was rationally designed at Shanghai Bao Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. by leveraging published antibody-antigen structures to share common light chain with two Fab arms, resulting in functionally balanced high affinity for two HER2 nonoverlapping epitopes. Read More
Cardiovascular disease is among the leading causes of death in individuals with type 2 diabetes. The role that microRNA 210 (miR-210) plays in endothelial cells and in diabetes-driven endothelial dysfunction is not clearly understood. Its potential as a therapeutic target was investigated. Read More
The University of Virginia and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. have patented protein spinster homolog 2 (SPNS2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of asthma, multiple sclerosis, chronic kidney disease and metastatic cancer. Read More
Work at Janssen Pharmaceutica NV has led to the identification of lactam-containing imidazopyridazine interleukin-17A (IL-17A)/interleukin-17 receptor A (IL-17RA) interaction inhibitors. Read More
Spastic paraplegia type 47 (SPG47) is a rare congenital and neurological disorder characterized by dysfunction of the long axons in the corticospinal tract neurons that lead to progressive limb weakness and spasticity. Read More
Pin Therapeutics Inc. has designed new molecular glue degraders comprising cereblon (CRBN)-binding agents acting as eukaryotic peptide chain release factor GTP-binding subunit ERF3A (GSPT1) degradation inducers. Read More
Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have disclosed new GTPase KRAS (G12D mutant) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer. Read More
Glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) is a glutamate scavenger that has been proposed to be used to counteract the excitotoxicity secondary to stroke or traumatic brain injury, among other pathologies. Furthermore, recent research suggests that mitochondrial GOT protects against energy failure after ischemia. Read More
