Few images are more iconic in the science fiction genre than the vast deserts of the planet Arrakis, rich with spice and teeming with massive sandworms. The franchise even gets its title ...

"Dune"-inspired Arrakis Therapeutics has tested its spice—an RNA-targeting small molecule—in a mouse model of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), with the drug reversing the prolonged muscle ...

Sandworms on Arrakis provide the oxygen needed for human survival in an otherwise harsh desert environment. Sandworms ...

Gilman’s startup, Arrakis, had a radical solution. It would skip the protein. Instead, the startup — which derives its name from the frontier planet in Dune, source of life-extending ...

CEO Michael Gilman said Arrakis faced an “unbelievable amount of skepticism” when it got started around 2017. In an interview with the Business Journal, Gilman explains how the company charted ...