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Reinventing the small molecule toolbox: from proteins to RNA

Dark Matter Blog

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. The post Reinventing the small molecule toolbox: from proteins to RNA appeared first on Arrakis Therapeutics. Welcome to the RNA world.

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Role of second messengers in the cell | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

Effectors of signal transmission events Second messengers are small molecules or ions that transmit signals received at the cell surface to the inside environment of the cell (Fig.

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Fighting Parasitic Infections: Promise in Cyclic Peptides

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

Researchers soon began screening a chemical library and its more than 380,000 traditional drug candidates to find the right small-molecule inhibitor, the preferred compound in drug discovery. Missing was the usual pocket-shaped active site, where a traditional small molecule can readily bind and block function.

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Codon Digest: Injected Gene Editors

Codon

An open-source FACS automation system for high-throughput cell biology. Cell Systems. Read Small-molecule aptamer for regulating RNA functions in mammalian cells and animals. Read The FDA is reviewing a “controversial cell therapy for ALS,” developed by BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

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. Read Microbes in the wild ‘talk’ to their neighbors by emitting, and sensing, small chemicals. Cell Systems.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

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. Read Microbes in the wild ‘talk’ to their neighbors by emitting, and sensing, small chemicals. Cell Systems.

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Biology is a Burrito

Codon

I felt like a scientist for the first time, and I began to grasp the “numbers of biology” (many calculations in this essay come from that course and another textbook, Cell Biology by the Numbers.) Without mathematics, I learned, biology is naked; we can only comprehend it at arm's length.

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