Dark Matter Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

The tools in this kit fall into a few broad categories: understanding protein structures and their functional significance, identifying ligands that bind into functionally significant pockets, and developing assays that confirm target engagement along with demonstrating the anticipated impact on cell biology.

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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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Codon

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Collecting the Numbers We can easily measure some things in biology yet struggle to measure others. Thanks to decades of progress in molecular sequencing technologies, it is simple to read out the order of nucleotides in a DNA sequence, for example, or to quantify messenger RNAs as they are made by a cell.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

1 One rarely pauses to ponder how so much DNA — let alone sugar, proteins, and everything else — can fit inside such a small vessel. Biochemistry textbooks depict cells as spacious places, where molecules float in secluded harmony. Without mathematics, I learned, biology is naked; we can only comprehend it at arm's length.

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Codon

APRIL 2, 2023

But now, by studying DNA extracted from microbes in the blood of almost 10,000 healthy people, this paper shows that there is no such thing. Read Transcription factors bind to DNA and control gene expression. They tend to “group up” in cells. Molecular Systems Biology. Nature Microbiology. Meeussen J.V.W.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

2/ Live Long and Prosper, Lil’ Yeasty Boys Yeast cells usually live for about one week. Yeast die for two reasons: Either their nucleolus (where the DNA is kept) degrades and dies, or their mitochondria whimpers out and they stop making energy. kilobases” of DNA into a plant genome. (My Nature Cell Biology.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

2/ Live Long and Prosper, Lil’ Yeasty Boys Yeast cells usually live for about one week. Yeast die for two reasons: Either their nucleolus (where the DNA is kept) degrades and dies, or their mitochondria whimpers out and they stop making energy. kilobases” of DNA into a plant genome. (My Nature Cell Biology.

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