Following a research program to identify inhibitors of protein kinases TBK1 and IKK-ε, Domainex Ltd. has nominated DMXD-011 as a preclinical drug candidate.
“The association between air pollution and lung cancer is not new,” Charles Swanton told the audience at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2022 Congress. But as with so many associations, causation has been hard to establish, partly due to the puzzling absence of mutations.
Hangzhou Innogate Pharma Co. Ltd. has divulged new NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of inflammation, cancer, infections and metabolic, respiratory, liver, kidney and autoimmune diseases, among other disorders.
Arcutis Biotherapeutics Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Ducentis Biotherapeutics Inc., a preclinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapies for inflammation and autoimmune diseases.
A brief pulse of rapamycin before the onset of aging extended lifespan by triggering lasting increases in autophagy. The authors called this phenomenon "rapamycin memory." Elevated autophagy was accompanied by increased levels of LManV and lysozyme in fruit flies, in intestinal enterocytes in female fly models, and its Man2B1 homologue in mice. In mice, a 3-month treatment in early adulthood had the same effect as chronic treatment, even 6 months after rapamycin was withdrawn. In the study published in the Aug. 29, 2022, issue of Nature Aging and led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute, scientists showed that the lifespan-increasing response to rapamycin treatment decreased with the age at which treatment is started.
Dysregulation of complement activation plays a key role in the pathophysiology of several diseases, which makes it an attractive therapeutic target. C3 has an important role and central position within the signaling cascade, and is a potential target for therapy.
Tranquis Therapeutics Inc. has announced preclinical data on the antiaging effects of TQS-168, a small-molecule modulator of PGC-1alpha (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator 1-alpha).
The structure of a potent and selective TYK2 inhibitor, NDI-034858 (NTX-973), which was found clinically effective in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, was disclosed for the first time by researchers from Nimbus Therapeutics LLC.
Researchers have created mouse embryos entirely from stem cells in vitro that formed a brain and a beating heart and lay the foundations for all the other organs of the body.
The synthetic embryos faithfully mimic the development of their natural counterparts in utero for 8.5 days, before hitting a roadblock and becoming disorganized.