Maze Therapeutics Inc. has described sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter B(0)AT1 (SLC6A19) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of phenylketonuria, metabolic syndrome, chronic kidney disease and metabolic diseases.
Researchers at Biogen Inc. and Broad Institute Inc. have divulged glycogen synthase kinase-3α (GSK3A; GSK-3α) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, neurological and metabolic diseases.
“Prenatal therapies are the next disruptive technologies in health care, which will advance and shape the future of patient care in the 21st century,” said Graça Almeida-Porada, a professor at the Fetal Research and Therapy Center of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. At the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) annual meeting in Baltimore on May 5, 2024, Almeida-Porada introduced the first presentation of the scientific symposium “Prospects for Prenatal Gene and Cell Therapy.”
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and collaborators published results from a study that aimed to assess the potential role of caveolin 3 (CAV3) in mitochondrial function during diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM).
Shenzhen Zhongge Biotechnology Co. Ltd. has synthesized tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 1 (PTPN1; PTP-1B) and/or PTPN2 (TCPTP) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, obesity, atherosclerosis, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, neurodegeneration, metabolic syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease, among others.
Shionogi & Co. Ltd. has divulged glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of obesity and diabetes type 2.