Monday, 23 July 2018

Top AI companies join hands to discover novel drugs for DMD

Insilico Medicine a leader in artificial intelligence for drug discovery, biomarker development and aging research, announced a research collaboration agreement with A2A Pharmaceuticals, Inc. A2A is a biotechnology company headquartered in New York and focused on development of novel drugs for unmet needs in oncology, drug resistant bacterial infections, and other life threatening diseases.
The companies agreed to join forces to create a new company called "Consortium.AI" , which will apply the latest advances in AI to discovery of novel small molecules for the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and other rare orphan diseases. Computationally pre-optimized new drug candidates have already been designed for targets validated through Insilico's artificial intelligence system A2A Pharmaceuticals will assume the management of the new company, provide the development expertise for the newly discovered compounds and should be contacted for the licensing of the compounds.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180720/Top-AI-companies-join-hands-to-discover-novel-drugs-for-DMD.aspx

Monday, 2 July 2018

A dietary supplement derived from glucose increases muscle-force production in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) mouse model by 50% in ten days, according to a study conducted by researchers from Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine and Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Québec Research Centre-Université Laval. The results, which were recently published in the scientific periodical The FASEB Journal, pave the way for a clinical study to test the treatment's effectiveness on humans.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180630/Glucose-based-dietary-supplement-increases-muscle-force-in-Duchenne-muscular-dystrophy-mouse.aspx