A little over a week after announcing that the Evoke and Evoke+ studies failed to show that oral semaglutide could slow cognition decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, investors and researchers got the first look at the actual data from the studies, which were presented at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease 2025 meeting.
Animate Biosciences Inc. has released new preclinical results demonstrating that AI-designed peptides generated by its Animateiq discovery platform significantly reduced hallmark inflammation and fibrosis signals across multiple human cell types, including skin, lung, heart and liver.
In a phase II study, Novo Nordisk A/S’s amycretin reduced the weight of type 2 diabetes patients by 14.5% in 36 weeks, a statistically significant loss. The results also produced reduced hemoglobin A1C levels, an average of blood glucose that is used to monitor blood sugar control, below 7% in up to 89.1% of the participants.
