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First gene therapy trial for Hunter syndrome opens in Manchester, UK

Drug Discovery World

The children will continue to receive enzyme replacement therapy during treatment, but once the gene therapy begins to work, the research team say part of the trial aims to remove the need for weekly enzyme replacement therapy over the child’s lifetime, while the other aim is to safely target the brain disease suffered by these patients.

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Gene Silencing Porphyria Treatment, Givlaari, Finally Wins Over England’s NICE Amid Stellar Long-Term Data

XTalks

After initial rejection from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) last year, the non-departmental public body of the Department of Health in England has now given the green light to the gene silencing treatment Givlaari (givosiran) for the treatment of the rare metabolic disorder, acute intermittent porphyria (AIP).

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Grand Rounds December 2, 2022: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mobile Health Intervention in Heart Failure and Diabetes: Lessons Learned (G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Director, Cardiovascular and Metabolism Research, DCRI. Making lifestyle changes is difficult especially for people living with chronic diseases, where healthy behaviors could make a big difference. This study asks how can we better facilitate health behaviors in patients with chronic diseases and can we leverage technology?

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2021 Hansen Family Award goes to Professor Kai Johnsson

The Pharma Data

using SNAP-tag) involves labeling cell proteins with a fluorescent dye, thereby enabling researchers to observe how proteins interact in the living cell and where in the cell they are located. “We His latest work on the development of biosensors has huge potential to benefit patients with certain metabolic diseases.”.

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Perfusion MRI and Other Perfusion Imaging Techniques for Clinical Trials

XTalks

Features of blood perfusion in the brain detected by MRI now have clinical applications in central nervous system (CNS) cancers, neurodegenerative disease, cerebrovascular disease and demyelinating disease. An overview of the ASL MR perfusion technique to obtain cerebral blood flow (CBF) values.

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Conjugation and Labeling of Molecules: A Burgeoning Approach in Therapeutics Development and Molecular Imaging

Roots Analysis

These molecules can be conjugated with various modalities, such as haptens, enzymes, isotopes, fluorescent tags, carrier proteins, polymers, particle conjugates and photoreactive molecules. Moreover, polymers, sugars, carrier proteins, lipid-conjugated peptides display the potential to act as peptide therapeutics for various diseases.

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Tirzepatide Obesity Drug Shown to Reduce Body Weight by 20 Percent in Eli Lilly Trial

XTalks

These bind to their respective receptors to increase glucose metabolism by increasing insulin secretion. Obesity is a chronic disease that requires effective treatment options, and Lilly is working relentlessly to support people with obesity and modernize how this disease is approached.

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