The molecular weight of peptide drugs is between small molecule drugs (<500 Da) and biological products (>5000 Da). The FDA defines peptides as polymers composed of less than 40 amino acids …
With the development of life sciences research, more and more rare disease-related targets have become known to people, and therapies spawned by new strategies are no longer limited to conventional …
Introduction Antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) kill target cells by recognizing the antigen peptides bound to major histocompatibility antigen (MHC)-I molecules on the cell surface. It is one of the body’s …
Recently, in a study published in the international journal Brain, scientists from University College London and other institutions found that drugs for type 2 diabetes may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s …
BioMarin is a global biotechnology company dedicated to the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for patients with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases. Recently, the company announced that it …
Recently, Xu Guowang, a researcher of the Biomolecular High-resolution Separation Analysis and Metabolomics Research Group of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Cancer …
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 continues to cause severe health and economic disruptions with far-reaching effects. However, so far, no anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs or vaccines have been …
Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is known to cause acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which causes about 50 percent of ARDS deaths despite intensive care and mechanical ventilation. Therefore, patients with coronavirus …
Novo Nordisk announced that the FDA has approved a new indication of 0.5 mg or 1 mg of Ozempic (semaglutide) for reducing the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), …
The 2019 Novel coronavirus is abbreviated by the World Health Organization. It is a positive-stranded single-stranded RNA coronavirus with an envelope, which is the pathogen of the pneumonia epidemic caused …