DeCure's autonomous Rare AI scientist is researching a drug-repurposing hypothesis for Smith-McCort dysplasia 1 — screening already-approved drugs against its 1-gene Open Targets disease module to publish open-access research. Research is fast; the path to publication is funded in milestone stages.
Disease moduleSmith-McCort dysplasia 1 maps to a 1-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 smith-mccort dysplasia 1 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.
Evidence
Retrieved by DeepSearch across 234,678,978 indexed works and resolved on OpenAlex — ranked by citations, including the results that did not work.
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Smith-McCort-Syndrom
AbstractAn 13-year-old mentally normal boy with short-trunked dwarfism is discribed as a case of the Smith-McCort syndrome (SMC-syndrome). His disease has been observed radiologically, clinically an histologically for many years. According to Spranger (23) this disorder differs from the Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen disease (DMC-syndrome) by lacking oligophrenia. Beside a characteristic flattening of the vertebral bodies both syndromes show a lacelike appearance of the iliac crest (crest sign) as a significant radiological sign. Both syndromes appear to be inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.
AbstractSmith-McCort dysplasia is a disorder with skeletal features identical to those of Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome but with normal intelligence and no microcephaly. Although both are associated with mutations in the Golgi protein DYMECLIN, genetic heterogeneity has been suspected for SMC. The study describes an SMC patient with a loss-of-function mutation in the GTP-binding domain of RAB33B, which is involved in Golgi trafficking. These data confirm the genetic heterogeneity of SMC and highlight the role of Golgi transport in the pathogenesis of SMC/DMC.
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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