Dark Matter Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Prior to 2015, I had a casual relationship, at best, with targeting RNA. The bulk of my nearly three decades of experience up to that point was with drugging protein targets using a variety of modalities, but principally small molecules. Screening to Set a Course Screening brings its own challenges.

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

These regimens frequently include one or two small molecule inhibitors and immuno-oncology (IO) therapies, such as monoclonal antibodies and T-cell engagers. 2015);126(1):9-16. 2015);126(4):454-462. Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential and its distinction from myelodysplastic syndromes.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 4, 2023

2 In response, DNA-damaging agents that could target the entire cell cycle received renewed attention as ADC payloads. Groundbreaking strategies like proteolysis-targeting chimeric molecules (PROTACs) are also being explored. 4 But the horizon of ADCs is expanding even further, with the design of complex payloads.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Allison Berke makes the case for real-time DNA sequencing and AI tools to detect pathogens before they spread widely. Reading DNA The first step in detecting a novel pathogen is recognizing it as an anomaly amidst a noisy background of other material. After copying the DNA to form a big pool, each piece is sequenced.

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Codon

JUNE 11, 2024

And unlike traditional DNA sequencers, which parse genetic material by breaking it up into fragments and interpreting it chunk-by-chunk, a nanopore device unspools a long strand of DNA and reads it all at once. A scientist can isolate DNA and load up a flow cell in fifteen minutes. Nanopore devices work incredibly fast.

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PLOS: DNA Science

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Gleevec is a small molecule that interferes with entry of an enzyme – a tyrosine kinase – that enables growth signals to enter specific cells and trigger division. A name ending in “nib” means a small molecule that inhibits an enzyme called a kinase, and is short for “inhibit.”

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Codon

MARCH 19, 2024

Most cells (excluding T-cells and B cells after V(D)J recombination) in our body contain the same DNA but appear and behave in distinct ways: A neuron looks and acts very differently from a hepatocyte. While DNA is relatively stable , the epigenome is not; it has to orchestrate changes in cell state, cell type, and more.

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