LA JOLLA, CA – December 27, 2011 – Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that DNA stays too tightly wound in certain brain cells of schizophrenic subjects. The findings suggest that drugs already in development for other diseases might eventually offer hope as a treatment for schizophrenia and related conditions in the elderly.
The research, now available online in the new Nature journal, Translational Psychiatry, shows the deficit is especially…
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Students at the Jacobs School of Engineering are working to develop a cheaper, lighter, multi-function microscope that could be used in clinics in developing countries. Their prototype will be flown to Mozambique this summer and field tested at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in the country’s capital, Maputo.
Similar microscopes…
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Inactivation of two genes may have allowed escape from bacterial pathogens, researchers say
Escherichia coli bacteria, like these in a false-color scanning electron micrograph by Thomas Deerinck at UC San Diego’s National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, cause a variety of often life-threatening conditions, particularly among the young. Varki and colleagues suggest a genetic…
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LA JOLLA, CA – June 3, 2012 – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA—the genetic instructions for living organisms that is composed of four bases (C, G, A and T)—is more open to unnatural letters than had previously been thought. An expanded “DNA alphabet” could carry more information than natural DNA, potentially coding for a much wider range of molecules and enabling a variety of powerful applications, from…
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LA JOLLA, CA, June 1, 2012 – Peter Farrell, chairman and chief executive officer of San Diego-based ResMed, has been elected to The Scripps Research Institute’s Board of Trustees.
“We would like to offer Peter a warm welcome,” said Dick Gephardt, President/CEO of Gephardt Government Affairs and lead trustee of the Scripps Research Board of Trustees. "We are confident his contributions to the board will help foster the Institute's continued preeminence in biomedical research and…
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18th Sculpture in UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection Is Both Homey and Disorienting
Photos by Philipp Scholz Rittermann
The artist wasn’t sure it could be done. When Do Ho Suh first proposed “Fallen Star” to UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection, he “never thought it would be realized.” A cottage built from scratch and permanently joined to an existing campus building – several stories up in…
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LA JOLLA, CA – May 31, 2012 – Scripps Research Institute Professor Richard A. Lerner, MD, has won a prestigious international honor, the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research, according to an announcement made today by the Prince of Asturias Foundation. Lerner shares the award with British biochemist Sir Gregory Winter, PhD.
Sometimes called the “Spanish Nobel Prize,” the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research is bestowed for findings…
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego
Four Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, researchers will receive Navy funding to acquire and deploy instruments in support of studies ranging from coastal oceanography to deep-ocean acoustics. The awards mark the continuation of a partnership between Scripps and the Navy that predates World War II.
The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a total of…
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LA JOLLA, CA – May 29, 2012 – Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and Pfizer Inc. have published a new study showing how a new drug called tafamidis (Vyndaqel®) works. Tafamidis, approved for use in Europe and currently under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is the first medication approved by a major regulatory agency to treat an amyloid disease, a class of conditions that include Alzheimer’s.
Tafamidis treats a deadly nerve disease caused by…
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LA JOLLA, CA – May 29, 2012 – Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and Pfizer Inc. have published a new study showing how a new drug called tafamidis (Vyndaqel®) works. Tafamidis, approved for use in Europe and currently under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is the first medication approved by a major regulatory agency to treat an amyloid disease, a class of conditions that include Alzheimer’s.
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Applicants Asked to Apply by June 8
San Diego Supercomputer Center. Photo: Alan Decker
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, is expanding upon its successful Gordon Summer Institute program to include both its Gordon andTrestles supercomputers, with participants invited to focus on specific challenges in their areas of…
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will host its ninth annual Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG’12) August 6-10. Since 2004, CSIG has been funded each year by a grant from the Earth Science Division (EAR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The theme for CSIG’12 is…
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Scripps-led analysis of tiny marine organisms indicates early promise in areas ranging from inflammation to skin conditions
Darkly colored cyanobacteria overtake a Hawaiian coral reef. Photo credit: Jennifer Smith
A seaweed considered a threat to the healthy growth of coral reefs in Hawaii may possess the ability to produce substances that could one day treat human diseases, a new study…
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