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. Welcome to the RNA world. Familiar tools to solve familiar problems with proteins.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 23, 2024

Shortly after finishing my studies, I landed my first job in industry working on cell biology research for several disease indications. Now we’re focusing on delivering oral small molecule degraders to provide a new generation of convenient, highly effective therapies for patients with immunology conditions.

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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 10, 2023

A twist of fate: GRP78 regulates cell migration and invasion Continuing their exploration of GRP78’s functions in the cell nucleus, the researchers utilised sophisticated RNA sequencing to compare lung cancer cells engineered to over-express nuclear GRP78 with cells lacking it.

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Elrig

APRIL 29, 2024

She has played a key role inbuilding the target identification platform and a proprietary database of transcriptome-wide, functional RNA structures. Fascinated by the potential of AI in medical research, I transitioned to BenevolentAI in early 2023 as a Biology Project Leader.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. A typical E.

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

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