AI-powered therapeutic target discovery

FW Pun, IV Ozerov, A Zhavoronkov - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Disease modeling and target identification are the most crucial initial steps in drug
discovery, and influence the probability of success at every step of drug development …

The PROTACtable genome

M Schneider, CJ Radoux, A Hercules… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are an emerging drug modality that may offer
new opportunities to circumvent some of the limitations associated with traditional small …

Plasma proteomic associations with genetics and health in the UK Biobank

BB Sun, J Chiou, M Traylor, C Benner, YH Hsu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Pharma Proteomics Project is a precompetitive biopharmaceutical consortium
characterizing the plasma proteomic profiles of 54,219 UK Biobank participants. Here we …

Mapping the proteo-genomic convergence of human diseases

M Pietzner, E Wheeler, J Carrasco-Zanini, A Cortes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Proteins are essential functional units of the human body and represent
the largest class of drug targets. RATIONALE Broad-capture proteomics has the potential to …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations

CG Boer, K Hatzikotoulas, L Southam, L Stefánsdóttir… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Osteoarthritis affects over 300 million people worldwide. Here, we conduct a genome-wide
association study meta-analysis across 826,690 individuals (177,517 with osteoarthritis) and …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Rare and common genetic determinants of metabolic individuality and their effects on human health

P Surendran, ID Stewart, VPW Au Yeung, M Pietzner… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Garrod's concept of 'chemical individuality'has contributed to comprehension of the
molecular origins of human diseases. Untargeted high-throughput metabolomic …

Therapeutic target database 2020: enriched resource for facilitating research and early development of targeted therapeutics

Y Wang, S Zhang, F Li, Y Zhou, Y Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge of therapeutic targets and early drug candidates is useful for improved
drug discovery. In particular, information about target regulators and the patented …

The current state and future directions of RNAi-based therapeutics

RL Setten, JJ Rossi, S Han - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
The RNA interference (RNAi) pathway regulates mRNA stability and translation in nearly all
human cells. Small double-stranded RNA molecules can efficiently trigger RNAi silencing of …

Facing up to the global challenges of ageing

L Partridge, J Deelen, PE Slagboom - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Longer human lives have led to a global burden of late-life disease. However, some older
people experience little ill health, a trait that should be extended to the general population …