by Gabriela Colmenares | Dec 20, 2018 | GNAO1 |
As discussed in a previous post, we are currently working on a GNAO1 PerlQuest collaboration with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) and Harvard Medical School. GNAO1 is a gene that encodes for the alpha subunit of a G protein, and mutations in this gene lead a...
by Jessica Lao | Oct 19, 2018 | Rare Diseases |
The 2018 Yeast Genetics Meeting (#Yeast18) was held in August at Stanford University in Palo Alto. I learned about the latest developments in research and advances in tools and technology, reconnected with former colleagues, and established new connections and...
by Gabriela Colmenares | Sep 11, 2018 | GNAO1 |
As part of Perlara’s collaboration with the Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN) and Harvard Medical School on the GNAO1 PerlQuest – which our Director of R&D, Nina DiPrimio, introduced in a previous post – I have been working with the yeast team headed...
by Jessica Lao | Aug 2, 2018 | Pancreatitis |
Perlara and Mission: Cure – a nonprofit organization with a mission to find a cure for those affected by pancreatitis – recently launched a Pancreatitis PerlQuest partnership. Ethan covers the backstory of this partnership – from the initial intro to...
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...
