Melbourne, Australia – Researchers at St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research (SVI) in Melbourne have shown that a commonly prescribed rheumatoid arthritis drug can suppress the progression of type 1 diabetes. The world-first human trial, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine and led by SVI’s Professor Thomas...
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Manchester, England – In a momentous landmark for medical research, UK Biobank has today unveiled incredible new data from whole genome sequencing of its half a million participants. This is set to drive the discovery of new diagnostics, treatments and cures and, uniquely, is available to approved researchers worldwide, via...
UPTON, NY – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new, highly detailed x-ray imaging technique that could be developed into a method for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. The technique has previously been used to look at tumors in breast tissue and...
XNK Therapeutics will perform a proof of concept study in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) using patient samples from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The proof of concept study is to determine the feasibility to expand and activate NK cells from patients with AML using XNK’s platform. The...
CALGARY, Alberta — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: XRTX | TSXV: XRTX | Frankfurt: ANUA WKN: A3UNZ), a late-stage clinical pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, is pleased to announce a research paper titled “Raising serum uric acid with a uricase inhibitor worsens PKD in...
BUFFALO, NY – A new research paper was published in Aging, entitled, “XRCC1: a potential prognostic and immunological biomarker in LGG based on systematic pan-cancer analysis.” X-ray repair cross-complementation group 1 (XRCC1) is a pivotal contributor to base excision repair, and its dysregulation has been implicated in the oncogenicity of...
Rare diseases are not so rare. While a single rare disease may only affect a small proportion of the population, as many as 10% of Americans live with rare diseases, and most of those 30 million people have limited or no treatments and lack access to expert care. Now, Yale...
Los Angeles, California – A new UCLA Health study found Kundalini yoga provided several benefits to cognition and memory for older women at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease including restoring neural pathways, preventing brain matter decline and reversing aging and inflammation-associated biomarkers – improvements not seen in a group who...
Copenhagen, Denmark – The FDA rejected Zealand Pharma’s glucagon receptor agonist in congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) after identifying problems at a third-party manufacturing site. The company said it remains confident that it can resubmit in the first half of 2024. Zealand revealed last week that the regulator issued a complete response...
WESTON, Fla. — ZyVersa Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage specialty biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class drugs for treatment of inflammatory and renal diseases, is pleased to announce that world renowned inflammasome researchers and inventors of ZyVersa’s Inflammasome ASC Inhibitor IC 100 have published a scientific paper in the peer-reviewed journal, Alzheimer’s...