the longer reads

Posts & explainers

The pieces I sit down and actually write — primers, drug watches, and the occasional personal note. For the paper-by-paper feed, see news.

Mitochondrion
explainer12 Jul 20266 min read

So what actually is VDAC1, and why do I care this much?

The on-ramp post: what the channel does, why 'the most abundant protein on the mitochondrial outer membrane' is a big deal, and how the same pore that keeps a cell alive can help kill it — with a spin-it-yourself 3D structure.

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drug-watch8 Jul 20265 min read

VBIT-4 & VBIT-12: the molecules trying to stop VDAC1 from ganging up

A running summary of the VBIT compounds that block VDAC1 oligomerization — where the idea came from, which disease models they've been tested in, and the honest caveats about how early it all still is.

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personal3 Jul 20264 min read

Why a PSEN1 carrier ended up obsessed with mitochondria

The origin story of this blog — a genetic result, the amyloid-vs-energy argument in Alzheimer's, and the hunch that mitochondria are doing more of the driving than we give them credit for.

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