by Ethan Perlstein | Jul 21, 2016 | Blogposts, Science |
Last month I traveled to Tucson for my third consecutive Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation meeting for Niemann-Pick Type C/NPC. In 2014 at my first APMRF meeting, which was hosted in South Bend at Notre Dame University, I was a newcomer to the NPC community...
by Ethan Perlstein | Jul 16, 2016 | Last Month in Tweets |
Summer is conference high season, and June was no exception. PLabbers fanned out across the country (and San Francisco) for three events, including two patient-advocacy-group-led research meetings. The first conference was the 22nd annual Ara Parseghian Medical...
by Ethan Perlstein | Jun 15, 2016 | Last Month in Tweets |
YC Demo Day marked the beginning of Spring and a new chapter of growth for PLab. For two years (2014 and 2015) we operated not just as a lean startup, but as an ultra-lean startup — you could call it budgetary caloric restriction. Read more about how we made the...
by Ethan Perlstein | May 29, 2016 | Science |
At PLab we’re always on the lookout for new publications describing simple animal models of rare genetic diseases. The more non-obvious the model/disease fit appears at first blush, the more exciting are any results that confirm therapeutic relevance in humans...
by Ethan Perlstein | May 15, 2016 | Last Month in Tweets |
We kicked off April with Tamy’s first post on the PLab blog. She and Tom have been working hard to launch our Drosophila NGLY1 HTS campaign. Tamy describes an unexpected challenge we encountered during assay development. DMSO and Drug Discovery...
