by Sangeetha Iyer | Jul 9, 2018 | Science |
Perlara’s worm team recently attended two C. elegans neuroscience conferences – CE Neuro 2018 & CE Aging 2018 – both held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This post recaps Zach and my time at the CE Neuro 2018 conference, which focused on...
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 Zach Parton | May 17, 2018 | Science |
In 2016, Perlara and Wylder Nation launched a PerlQuest to find a cure for Niemann-Pick Type A (NPA). We have also been developing simple organism disease models for Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) as a part of our research collaboration with Novartis. An interesting...
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,...
