Elix and University of Vienna Aim to Advance Drug Discovery Using AI
Tokyo-based Elix and the University of Vienna signed a joint research agreement aimed at advancing drug discovery using AI technologies.
One of Elix’s business models is the provision of its integrated AI drug discovery platform,...
Base Editing Strategy Alleviates Huntington’s Disease in Mice
According to at least one estimate, approximately 41,000 people in the United States have symptoms of Huntington’s disease, and more than 200,000 are at-risk of inheriting the disease. Symptoms of the neurodegenerative disorder, which...
Argenx Expands Immunology Portfolio with $2.2B Buyout of Forte Biosciences
Argenx has agreed to acquire Forte Biosciences for $2.2 billion, the companies said, in a deal intended to expand the buyer’s immunology portfolio with an early clinical stage candidate that has shown promising data.
Earlier...
Parkinson’s Disease Medication Monitored with Fingertip Sweat Patch
Engineers and neuroscientists at the University of California (UC) San Diego have developed a soft, wearable fingertip patch that continuously tracks a Parkinson’s disease (PD) patient’s levodopa medication levels by measuring chemicals in their...
Colorectal Cancer Targeted with Mass-Produced iPSC-Derived Allogeneic T Cells
Researchers at Kobe University have generated off-the-shelf, mass-producible induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived gamma delta T cells (γδT cells) that in a small preclinical study suppressed tumor growth in mouse colorectal cancer (CRC) xenograft...
Oral Antiviral Blocks Measles-Like Virus Transmission in Ferrets
This year, the United States has recorded the highest number of measles cases since 2000, the year that the disease was declared eliminated from the country. As of mid-July, 2,260 measles cases were reported—just...
Single-Cell Atlas Simultaneously Maps 3D Genome Architecture and DNA Methylation
Scientists at the Salk Institute and the Arc Institute, along with their collaborators, unveiled the first body-wide single-cell atlas of two major epigenetic systems: three-dimensional genome folding and DNA methylation, measured simultaneously in the...
Transmissible Cancer Discovered in Freshwater Fish
Researchers headed by a team at the University of Vermont have discovered that mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and other New England and Canadian lakes are caused by a transmissible...
10x Clinical Expansion Advances with CLIA Lab Plans, Cleveland Clinic Partnership
10x Genomics says it is on track to build out a CLIA-certified laboratory set to open next year, part of the spatial and single-cell tools developer’s expansion into clinical diagnostics launched earlier this year.
The...
Protein Protects Against Tau Tangles, Synaptic Loss in Mouse Model of Tauopathy
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and many other forms of neurodegeneration share a common culprit. In these diseases, tau proteins that normally stabilize neuronal microtubule filaments within nervous system networks instead form noxious knots and gradually...
