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DeCure for Retinitis pigmentosa 50

DeCure's autonomous Rare AI scientist is researching a drug-repurposing hypothesis for retinitis pigmentosa 50 — screening already-approved drugs against its 2-gene Open Targets disease module to publish open-access research. Research is fast; the path to publication is funded in milestone stages.

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The disease map

Disease moduleRetinitis pigmentosa 50 maps to a 2-gene Open Targets module — the target space DeCure's AI scientist screens approved drugs against.
DeCure.ai methodSignature reversal (LINCS) plus network proximity (STRING) rank already-approved drugs likely to perturb this module — the same engine that produces DeCure.ai's repurposing hypotheses.
Repurposing thesisScreening approved medicines against this disease module, then publishing the evidence for the strongest candidate. Known pharmacology and human exposure data make the first question sharper — they do not establish safety or efficacy in a new indication.

Research record

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ResearchComing soon
Candidate research + dossier — target rationale, drug-repurposing thesis and evidence pack.proof: Published dossier + on-chain hash
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ValidationComing soon
In-vitro biological validation at a contract research org (CRO).proof: CRO contract + in-vitro report
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Peer review & paperComing soon
Peer-reviewed paper published open-access (preprint + journal).proof: DOI + open-access link + on-chain hash

Current lead

No approved-drug candidate for retinitis pigmentosa 50 is corroborated in the literature DeepSearch retrieved. Some conditions are managed with non-pharmacological care — a device, surgery or physical therapy — rather than a medicine; that may be the case here, or the literature we found may simply be too sparse yet to support a drug-repurposing angle.

Molecular view

bestrophin 1 (BEST1)BEST1 is one of the genes genetically linked to this disease in Open Targets — shown as context, not as a drug target we're pursuing: no approved-drug candidate for this disease is yet corroborated in the literature we found.

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RCSB Protein Data Bank · entry 8D1I · 1.82 Å · ligand 1,2-DIMYRISTOYL-RAC-GLYCERO-3-PHOSPHOCHOLINE (MC3). Experimental structure, not a prediction.

Evidence

Retrieved by DeepSearch across 234,678,978 indexed works and resolved on OpenAlex — ranked by citations, including the results that did not work.

Journal of life sciences and biomedicine · 2020 · 0 citations

Studies of underlying molecular mechanisms of retinitis pigmentosa in experimental model and clinics

AbstractStudies of underlying molecular mechanisms of retinitis pigmentosa in experimental model and clinicsU.S. IsmailovaAcademician Abdulla Garayev Institute of Physiology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, 78 Sharifzadeh Str., Baku AZ1100, AzerbaijanFor correspondence: [email protected]

https://doi.org/10.29228/jlsb.51
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2020 · 0 citations · open access

New progress in the study of retinitis pigmentosa

AbstractRetinitis pigmentosa(RP)was known as pigmentation retinitis even. RP is a group of hereditary eye diseases that cause irreversible visual impairment due to progressive loss of function of retinal pigment epithelial cells and progressive apoptosis of photoreceptors. Because of its heterogeneity in phenotype and heredity and complex pathogenesis, there is currently no single effective treatment. This article mainly elaborates on the progress in the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa in recent years.

https://doi.org/10.3980/j.issn.1672-5123.2020.4.10

Disease module: DeepOracle (Open Targets). Structures: RDKit from PubChem SMILES. Literature: retrieved by DeepSearch across 234,678,978 indexed works (targeted per-candidate search), resolved on OpenAlex.

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