Dark Matter Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Prior to 2015, I had a casual relationship, at best, with targeting RNA. Targeting RNA is a Whole New World Then in 2015, I became smitten and eloped with RNA, setting out to build a company devoted to bringing to bear industrial drug discovery concepts and methods on a new problem of drugging RNA with small molecules.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At any given moment, thousands of messenger RNAs are being translated into proteins by ribosomes, which are protein-making machines that are, themselves, made from a mixture of proteins and RNA. As scientists devise more experiments and take more measurements, they often make them available in papers, pre-prints, websites and blogs.

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Codon

APRIL 9, 2023

Small snippets of double-stranded RNA were sprayed onto hot pepper plants to control a pest, called Frankliniella occidentalis. The RNA strands shut down a specific gene in the insects, and killed half after 7 days. RNA may offer a safer form of pest control in the future. Nature Chemical Biology. Current Biology.

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Therapies RNA Engineering Vaccine 52

Codon

APRIL 2, 2023

Read A new DNA polymerase variant, called RT-KTq I614Y, can directly detect RNA modifications, including pseudouridine (Ψ) and queuosine (Q). By combining this new variant with standard sequencing methods, it’s possible to identify RNA modifications in a really simple way. Communications Biology. Cell Systems.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

Read Stem cells were induced to form insulin-secreting pancreas cells and then transplanted into diabetic mice, where they successfully restored glucose levels. Nature Cell Biology. A new paper engineers a communication network between cells using DNA instead. Synthetic Biology. Cell Systems.

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Vaccine DNA Engineering RNA 52

Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

Read Stem cells were induced to form insulin-secreting pancreas cells and then transplanted into diabetic mice, where they successfully restored glucose levels. Nature Cell Biology. A new paper engineers a communication network between cells using DNA instead. Synthetic Biology. Cell Systems.

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New Drug Approvals

JANUARY 9, 2024

As such, it has been proposed that inhibiting CDK7 would provide a potent means of inhibiting cell cycle progression, which may be especially relevant given that there is compelling evidence from gene knockout studies in mice for lack of an absolute requirement for CDK2, CDK4 and CDK6 for the cell cycle at least in most cell types (M alumbres et al.,

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