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A covalent compound selectively inhibits RNA demethylase ALKBH5 rather than FTO

Covalent Modifiers

Herein, we used a targeted covalent inhibition strategy and identified a covalent inhibitor, TD19, which selectively inhibits ALKBH5 compared with FTO demethylase in protein-based and tumor cell-based assays. TD19 irreversibly modifies the residues C100 and C267, preventing ALKBH5 from binding to m6A-containing RNA.

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New image-based cellular profiling tool peers deeply into metabolic biology

Broad Institute

Image analysis software captures information about more than 3,000 cellular features, providing a deep view into the impacts of genetic variants, small molecule or genetic perturbations, and more on cellular shape, structure, and function. “It moves the community from a very targeted, hypothesis-driven, unidimensional cell-based assay framework to (..)

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How are mRNA vaccines changing drug discovery?

Tebu Bio: Drug Discovery

Recombinant monoclonal antibody (mAB) based treatments have proven their efficacy. Nevertheless, researchers are now considering using messenger RNA (mRNA) technologies for the development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. HIV or more recently SARS-Cov-2). Pre-clinical and clinical trials […]

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Broad Institute

Cell Painting uses six fluorescent dyes to image eight different components of a cell: the nucleus, nucleoli, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), golgi apparatus, cytoplasmic RNA, f-actin cytoskeleton, and plasma membrane.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

Elrig

She has played a key role inbuilding the target identification platform and a proprietary database of transcriptome-wide, functional RNA structures. Harini joined Serna Bio in early 2021 and has been an integral part of the multidisciplinary teamworking on target ID platform development to drug discovery.