** Shares of drug developer Genprex GNPX.O rise 7.8% to $1.94 premarket
** Co says its experimental gene therapy for diabetes, GPX-002, showed encouraging results in early animal studies
** Says therapy improved sugar processing; one primate in study normalized blood sugar after 7 months, another showed improvement but did not fully normalize sugar levels
** Mice normalized within 4 weeks - GNPX
** Co plans more animal studies and aims to seek regulatory nod for human trials
** As of last close, stock up ~3% over the past year
(Reporting by Sahil Pandey in Bengaluru)
((Sahil.Pandey@thomsonreuters.com))
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