BlankBio: RNA Foundation Models for Therapeutic mRNA Design
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Summary
BlankBio is a Y Combinator-backed startup developing RNA foundation models to create computational tools for therapeutic design. The company focuses on mRNA design to enable biologists to create effective therapeutic sequences for vaccines, gene therapies, and cancer treatments. The technology originated from the founders' PhD research and is currently available as open-source models with API access.
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Our vision is for any biologist to design an effective therapeutic sequence
mRNA has the potential to encode vaccines, gene therapies, and cancer treatments
Yet designing effective mRNA remains a bottleneck
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