The pressure to replace animal testing with human-relevant assays that are more predictive of human-drug responses has now reached a tipping point, and there is a movement toward greater acceptance of these potentially more translatable tests.
Sunshine Lake Pharma Co. Ltd. has divulged heterocyclic fused ring compounds acting as pyruvate kinase PKLR activators potentially useful for the treatment of anemia, abetalipoproteinemia, hemolysis, hereditary spherocytosis, sickle cell disease and thalassemia.