Transposon Therapeutics Inc. has acquired a portfolio of novel nucleoside analogues from Primefour Therapeutics Inc. for the targeted treatment of pancreatic cancer, certain other solid tumors and ...

Chiome Bioscience Inc. and Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. have entered into an exclusive license agreement to develop and commercialize Chiome’s humanized anti-CX3CR1 antibody, PFKR, currently in the ...

The U.S. FDA approved 15 drugs in October, marking a decline from 24 in September and 22 in August. Despite the drop, the 2024 monthly average stands at about 19 approvals, exceeding last year’s ...

Urocortin-2 (UCN2) is a selective corticotropin-releasing factor CRF2 receptor (CRFR2) agonist, which has been previously shown to reduce fat mass while promoting muscle hypertrophy. Hanmi ...

Former U.S. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has added her voice to concerns that the incoming Trump administration’s pledge to slim down federal agencies will damage public health. “These are ...

Autoimmunity Biosolutions has closed a seed financing to support its work advancing a next-generation, immuno-corrective therapy for autoimmune diseases. The company’s approach targets a branch of the ...

Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc. has released preclinical pharmacokinetics (PK) data for EDP-514, a potent and selective class II core assembly modulator in phase I development for the oral treatment of ...

Telomir Pharmaceuticals Inc. has reported preclinical results from evaluation of Telomir-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans, a well-established model for aging studies. Telomir-1 is a novel small molecule ...

Rome Therapeutics Inc. has presented data demonstrating the potential of its LINE-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors.

Startup company Pep2tango Therapeutics Inc., unveiled with backing by Versant Ventures, is advancing unimolecular multireceptor peptide agonists that target GLP-1, GIP, amylin and calcitonin receptors ...

Protagonist Therapeutics Inc. has selected PN-881, an oral peptide interleukin-17 (IL-17) antagonist, as a development candidate for the treatment of immune-mediated skin diseases.

Fat cells from patients who had lost weight after bariatric surgery, as well as from animals who had gained and then lost weight, were transcriptionally distinct from cells that had not experienced ...