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Scientists develop drug to prevent diabetic enteropathy
2 October 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have discovered a protein that 'soaks up' the overproduced hormone that leads to diabetic enteropathy...
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New company LA Cell to focus on cell-penetrating antibody therapies
29 September 2015 | By Victoria White
LA Cell has exclusively licensed technology that enables modified monoclonal antibodies to penetrate into cells and target "undruggable" disease-causing molecules...
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C4XD provides update on diabetes & inflammation compounds
23 September 2015 | By Victoria White
C4XD expects to progress its type 2 diabetes and inflammation programmes into in vivo proof-of-principle testing in the next few months...
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Ion channels: Small molecules versus biologics – the quest for the ideal Nav1.7 inhibitor
Ion channels modulate and control many fundamental physiological processes in various tissues and alterations in their functions give rise to a wide range of pathophysiologies, which makes them important drug targets. Indeed, for decades, drugs modulating ion channel activity have been targeted by the pharmaceutical industry. Historically, however, developing drugs…
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Researchers win EBF funding to advance Wolfram syndrome project
8 September 2015 | By Victoria White
A University of Birmingham research team, developing a treatment for Wolfram Syndrome, has secured £17,000 from the Enterprising Birmingham Fund...
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AMRA and Pfizer team up for MR imaging project
8 September 2015 | By Victoria White
AMRA will collaborate with Pfizer to help provide a better understanding of the relationship between body composition and risk for obesity related diseases...
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New high-throughput screening method could speed drug discovery
19 August 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have developed a potentially better and more accurate high-throughput screening technique and have used it to identify 24 drug candidates...
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IL-35 injections show promise as type 1 diabetes treatment
30 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Administration of IL-35 to mice with type 1 diabetes reverses or cures the disease by maintaining a normal blood glucose level and immune tolerance...
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Scientists successfully edit human T cells using CRISPR
29 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have precisely modifed human T cells using the CRISPR genome-editing system- a breakthrough that could lead to CRISPR/Cas9-based therapies...
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Scientists discover exercise mimicking molecule ‘compound 14’
28 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have developed a molecule, called 'compound 14', that acts as an exercise mimic, which could potentially help treat type 2 diabetes and obesity...
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KalVista raises $33 million to advance development of kallikrein inhibitors
22 July 2015 | By Victoria White
KalVista Pharmaceuticals has raised $33 million in Series B financing to support its research and clinical development programmes...
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Novel treatments emerging for human mitochondrial diseases
20 July 2015 | By
Using existing drugs to restore basic biological processes in human cells, researchers may have devised effective treatments for mitochondrial diseases...
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Genetic markers linking risk for type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s identified
20 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Certain patients with type 2 diabetes may have specific genetic risk factors that put them at higher risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease...
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First European nanomedicine characterisation laboratory launches
1 July 2015 | By Victoria White
A European Nano-Characterisation Laboratory has launched with the aim of reaching a level of international excellence in nanomedicine characterisation...
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Smart insulin patch could make painful injections a thing of the past for diabetes sufferers
23 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have created the first smart insulin patch that can detect increases in blood sugar levels and secrete doses of insulin into the bloodstream...
