Tailored medicine instead of a watering can - is Tyra Biosciences revolutionizing oncology?

Tyra Biosciences is a young biotechnology company from California that is working on new drugs for cancer and rare genetic diseases. At the center of its research is a specific biological "switch" in the body that is permanently programmed for growth in some patients. When this switch becomes overactive due to a genetic defect, tumors can form, or growth disorders can occur. This is where Tyra comes in: the researchers are developing active substances aimed at specifically braking this faulty mechanism without unnecessarily disturbing other processes...