March 20, 2025

eIF2B activator drug setback

FOCUS on drug failures. Denali Therapeutics‘ experimental drug for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has taken another setback as the drug generated disappointing results in a phase […]
December 22, 2022

Chemogenetic Technology Progress

In a recent paper in Nature, Bryan Roth et al. revealed detailed features in the recognition of DREADD actuators by designer receptors. Muscarinic DREADDs or designer […]
September 8, 2022

HDAC3 Inhibition Stimulates Myelination

Robert Prior and coworkers report in a recent issue of Molecular Neurobiology that inhibition of HDAC3 with RGFP966, a highly selective HDAC3 inhibitor, stimulates myelination in […]
March 1, 2022

MLN4924 in Ischemic Brain Injury research

In a PNAS paper just out Yu and coworkers showed that the small molecule NEDD8-activating enzyme (NAE) inhibitor MLN4924 (pevonedistat, Focus Cat# 10-1311) reduces ischemic brain […]