by Ethan Perlstein | Jun 4, 2018 | Organic Intelligence, Science |
What is the role of OI in drug discovery? Organic Intelligence (OI) is the collective brainpower and high emotional quotient of scientists and rare disease advocates teaming up to use the PerlArk™ Platform of model organisms, lab automation and computation for a new...
by Jessica Lao | May 8, 2018 | PMM2-CDG |
Drug repurposing screen in haploid PMM2-CDG yeast models During Stage 1 of our PerlQuest partnership with Maggie’s Cure, we generated haploid PMM2-CDG yeast models of three pathogenic variants: F119L, R141H, and V231M. We expressed these variants in the yeast...
by Ethan Perlstein | Apr 6, 2018 | MSD |
I’m excited to share the latest news! Today we announced our sixth PerlQuest partnership. Our PerlQuest partner is the Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency Action Foundation (MSDAF), a research-focused charity based in Ireland whose mission is to work towards a cure for...
by Hillary Tsang | Mar 22, 2018 | NGLY1 |
In 2016, Perlara and Grace Science Foundation launched a PerlQuest for NGLY1 Deficiency (also known as NGLY1-CDDG). As a part of this collaboration, we have embarked on developing an NGLY1 worm screen. This post will detail the worm team’s latest progress toward...
by Sangeetha Iyer | Feb 20, 2018 | PMM2-CDG |
Perlara and Maggie’s Cure have started a PerlQuest for a glycosylation disorder called PMM-2 deficiency disease – one of the most common congenital disorders of glycosylation. Over the past year at Perlara, we have modeled the pmm-2 deficiency disorder in yeast,...
