Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common hereditary degenerative eye disease that leads to progressive vision loss, primarily caused by retinal degeneration.
Although antifibrotic agents can contribute to suppressing renal function decline when administered in combination with existing treatments for chronic kidney disease, drugs targeting kidney fibrosis have yet to reach the clinic.
More than 95% of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and 20%-30% of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients express the fusion protein BCR-ABL1. The first-generation ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) Gleevec (imatinib) has significantly enhanced the prognosis of CML patients.
Researchers from Adipo Therapeutics LLC presented data from preclinical studies that aimed to assess the γ-secretase inhibitor ADPO-002 (dibenzazepine) for the treatment of obesity.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have found that blocking the neuron-released peptide CGRP decreases pain sensitivity and reduces lesion size in endometriosis. Endometriosis is a painful, steroid-dependent inflammatory condition in which tissue similar to that of the endometrial lining grows and establishes outside the uterine mucosa.
Cell and gene therapy companies are the beneficiaries of positive changes along the regulatory path that the U.S. FDA is paving for them, according to a panel of executives who spoke at the BioFuture 2024 conference in New York.
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