Nevertheless, transcriptional modifications may also lead to delays in recovery, as ongoing perturbations on a transcriptional level were observed for up to 6 months after infection, with PASC patients showing a distinct profile, such as upregulation of the alarmins S100A8 and HMGB1, mediators and markers of innate immune activation (124)
Pfizer, after discontinuing its initial danuglipron candidate due to safety concerns in April 2025, re-entered the race through a $10 billion acquisition of clinical-stage biotech Metsera in November 2025, securing a next-generation obesity pipeline [43]
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Rich Miller at the University of Michigan has done some incredible work here identifying a subset of biomarkers from the I T P mice