The amount of time and money that goes into getting a drug from initial discovery to FDA approval is substantial, typically involving at least 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars. Because of this, there has been a growing interest in repurposing drugs which have previously been approved for human use, particularly since their MOA as well as...

Mitochondrial diseases are a group of disorders associated with dysfunctional mitochondria, often caused by genetic mutations to mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial defects are damaging, particularly to tissues with high energy demands such as neural and muscle tissues. Energetic defects have been implicated in forms of movement disorders, cardiomyopathy,...

Synthetic genomics, though a relatively nascent field, is generating a lot of excitement in the scientific community, especially with the advent of unnatural nucleic acid polymers. Threose nucleic acid (TNA) is one such unnatural nucleic acid polymer that is particularly promising because of its high resistance to nuclease degradation, making it much...