article thumbnail

How will $41 million be used to fight chronic and age-related diseases? 

Drug Discovery World

Juvena Therapeutics, a biotechnology company scaling a computational platform to map the therapeutic potential of secreted proteins, has raised $41 million in an oversubscribed Series A, bringing its total funding to $50 million. This platform is applicable across a wide scope of disease indications.

Protein 52
article thumbnail

Why the Potential Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines on the Menstrual Cycle Are Not Concerning

XTalks

Currently, there is no scientific evidence to suggest that the vaccines induce any hormonal changes that would lead to irregular periods. However, the similarity between the two proteins is not great enough for anti-spike antibodies to cross-react with placental syncytin-1.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Type 1 Diabetes Vaccine: Does Diamyd Have a Winning Formula?

XTalks

In addition to the vaccine, the company is also developing an investigational drug called Remygen for the regeneration of endogenous insulin production and to improve hormonal response to hypoglycemia; trials to test the treatment are currently ongoing in patients that have been living with type 1 diabetes for more than five years.

article thumbnail

Research Roundup: Healthcare Workers Highest Risk for COVID-19 and More

The Pharma Data

Researchers with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) working in mice found that Alzheimer’s began much earlier with a fatal chain reaction that results in misfolded beta-amyloid proteins that get out of control and “literally floods the brain.” It is a hormone. Melatonin is produced by the body in darkness.

article thumbnail

What Innovative Treatments For Metastatic Breast Cancer are being developed?

Find Me Cure

CDK4/6 inhibitors are used alongside hormone therapy. HER2 is a protein that plays an important role in cancer cell growth and is found on the surface of cancer cells in a very high quantity in about 10-20% of breast cancers. Then they checked which of her TILs would recognize the mutated proteins.

article thumbnail

Surrogate Endpoints: How to Choose the Best One for Your Rare Disease Trial

XTalks

Symptoms and Etiology: Caused by an overproduction of growth hormone, acromegaly primarily affects adults. By reducing the amount of growth hormone in the blood, progressive enlargement of bones should be slowed. By reducing the amount of growth hormone in the blood, progressive enlargement of bones should be slowed.

Trials 98
article thumbnail

Researchers reveal regenerative potential of the thymus

Drug Discovery World

Could boost immune response to cancer The scientists demonstrated that thymic stem cells contribute to the environment by producing proteins of the extracellular matrix, which functions as their own support system.