Video: Growing colony of E. coli bacteria

When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8,…

JUPITER, FL, October 27, 2011 – The Scripps Research Institute has appointed Damon Page as assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience.

Page, 36, will work on the Scripps Florida campus in Jupiter. Prior to his appointment, he was a senior analyst at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington.

“Damon’s research on autism makes a valuable addition to our department,” said Ron L. Davis, chair…

Lawrence Friedman, MD, medical director

UC San Diego Health System has been recognized by the Integrated Healthcare Association…

Funding Could Help Uncover Novel Therapeutic Target for Neurodegenerative Disorder

JUPITER, FL, October 26, 2010 — The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the Michael J. Fox Foundation to study a pair of genetic mutations that could lead to a new and potentially vital therapeutic target for Parkinson’s disease, a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

Philip LoGrasso, PhD, a professor…

ORLANDO, Fla., October 24, 2011-Cancer patients may benefit from the research findings borne out of the first medical research collaborations between the University of Central Florida (UCF) and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona (Sanford-Burnham).

Two independent teams of cancer researchers, chemists, and bio-informatics engineers have published discoveries that…

Video of Bean Sprout Growth

By Kim McDonald

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in unraveling, for the first time, the complete chain of…

LA JOLLA, CA—A new class of anti-inflammatory drugs may one day serve as an alternative to steroid medications and possibly help avoid the serious side effects of steroids, based on research findings at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

The scientists, led by Inder M. Verma, a professor in Salk's Laboratory of Genetics and…

LA JOLLA, CA, October 20, 2011 – A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has identified a new metabolic pathway for controlling brain inflammation, suggesting strategies for treating it.

The new report, which appears in the October 20, 2011 edition of Science Express, focuses on the type of inflammation normally treatable with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin or ibuprofen. The study shows this type of inflammation is…

Scott LaFee

With age, forgetfulness and other signs of memory loss sometimes appear, prompting elderly individuals to seek a medical evaluation amid fears that they may be experiencing early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most…

Michael Karin, PhD

By Scott LaFee

Michael Karin, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology in the…

WASHINGTON, DC—The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announces the appointment of Inder M. Verma, Ph.D., as editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the official NAS journal. He will formally assume the editorship on November 1, and the transition to the new position will occur over several weeks.

An…

By Catherine Hockmuth

President Barack Obama will present University of California, San Diego bioengineering Professor Shu Chien with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST). The ceremony will be carried live…

Jackie Carr

Medical Education and Telemedicine Building at UC San Diego.

Every year, millions of…

By Jan Zverina

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the California…

LA JOLLA, CA—A discovery by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies might explain why some premature infants fail to respond to existing treatments for a deadly respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and offers clues for new ways to treat the breathing disorder.

The scientists identified a new form of RDS in newborn mice and traced the problem to a cellular receptor for thyroid hormone, a key player in many developmental processes in the body. They found that two drugs…

LA JOLLA, CA, October 13, 2011 – Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered the surprising details of how a powerful anti-HIV antibody grabs hold of the virus. The findings, published in Science Expresson October 13, 2011, highlight a major vulnerability of HIV and suggest a new target for vaccine development.

“What’s unexpected and unique about this antibody is that it not only attaches to the sugar coating of the virus but also reaches through to grab part…

JUPITER, FL, October 13, 2011 – A scientist at The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded $4.2 million from the National Institutes of Health in a program to advance what the agency calls “bold and creative research” into Type I diabetes.

Thomas Kodadek, a professor in the Department of Chemistry on the Scripps Florida campus, is the principal investigator on the study. The award will be shared with researchers at the University of Miami and Opko, a Florida-based…