Kura Oncology launches diabetes-focused Caspian Therapeutics
Just under a year after netting its first US approval for a cancer-fighting menin inhibitor, Kura Oncology…
Could scorpion venom inspire new treatments for liver disease?
From blocking inflammatory immune pathways to disrupting hepatitis viruses, scorpion-derived peptides are attracting attention as potential drug candidates,…
New platform enables large-scale production of custom proteins
Scientists have been hard at work for more than 20 years to instruct biological systems, such as E.…
UC Berkeley researchers find new potential treatment for obesity and diabetes
Over the past five years, medications called GLP-1s have revolutionized the treatment of metabolic disorders like obesity, diabetes…
Blocking ZFP36L2 protein may disrupt colorectal cancer metastatic growth
Digestion is hard on the cells that line the human gut, and they are constantly being shed and…
Discovery of calcium channel mechanism offers clues for brain disorder treatments
DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee) announced that a research team led by Professor Byung Chang Suh of the Department…
Remdesivir protects kidney and heart health in transplant recipients
Adults with kidney transplants who were treated for COVID-19 with the antiviral remdesivir within a week of COVID-19…
New strategy combines cancer immunotherapy and gene therapy in a single nanoparticle
Cancer cells survive by hiding from the immune system’s surveillance. A KAIST research team has developed a new…
Emerging non-endocytic transmembrane delivery strategies for precision medicine
Conventional endocytosis-mediated delivery is limited by poor endosomal escape efficiency, making intracellular delivery of therapeutic biomacromolecules a long-standing…
Endotrophin may reveal metabolic risks linked to changing body fat
Researchers have identified a biological marker that rises and falls as body fat changes, offering new insight into…
Multiple sclerosis mortality trends underscore need for comprehensive patient care
An analysis of more than 42,000 U.S. deaths linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) found that death rates varied…
Occult hepatitis B mutations drive liver cancer growth via Akt mTOR pathway
Occult hepatitis B virus (OBI) infection presents a significant global health challenge, notoriously flying under the radar of…