Using a novel light activation technique, Scripps Research Institute scientists have been able to turn molecules with only a modest ability to fight specific proteins into virtual protein destroyers.
The Scripps Research Institute’s Board of Trustees today unanimously elected Richard A. Gephardt, president and CEO of Gephardt Government Affairs and a former U.S. Congressman and House Majority and Minority Leader, as its new chairman.
Findings reveal an achilles heel on the virus for AIDS vaccine researchers to exploit.
San Diego philanthropist, businessman, and community leader John J. Moores has contributed the first gift of $2.1 million to The Scripps Research Institute's new $50 million initiative to recruit new world-class researchers and sustain and expand the work of current scientists at the renowned La Jolla- and Florida-based biomedical organization, the Institute announced today.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) is one of 14 research centers to receive a highly competitive $20 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) this year. STSI, led by Eric J. Topol, M.D., is a collaborative program between The Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Health, partnering with a number of institutions in San Diego.
Professor Jeanne F. Loring, Ph.D., has been named founding director of the newly created Center for Regenerative Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a new two-punch strategy against HIV and they have already successfully tested aspects of it in the laboratory.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a connection between blood coagulation and the immune system that may have important implications for people with sepsis, a severe and difficult to treat disease that kills tens of thousands of Americans a year.
Florida physician, businessman and philanthropist Phillip Frost and his wife, Patricia Frost, an ardent supporter of education and the arts, have donated $1 million to Scripps Florida, the biomedical research campus under construction in Jupiter, it was announced today.
The Scripps Research Institute and McDonald's today announced a collaboration regarding research and educational initiatives to drive progress toward a solution to childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes. McDonald's will contribute $2 million to The Scripps Research Institute to address these critical health issues facing America's youth.
In what may be the first published breakthrough of its kind in the global battle against obesity, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have developed an anti-obesity vaccine that significantly slowed weight gain and reduced body fat in animal models.
LA JOLLA, CA, July 10, 2006 -Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology have developed a unique assembly strategy to produce an anti-cancer targeting antibody, an approach that combines the merits of small molecule drug design with immunotherapy.
A team of researchers has shown for the first time that laboratory mice infected with the agent of scrapie -a brain-wasting disease of sheep-demonstrate high levels of the scrapie agent in their heart 300 days after being infected in the brain.
A large-scale study of different treatment approaches for alcohol dependence underlines that medication can play a key role in treatment.
A team of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has shed new light on the molecular basis of problems with brain function in models chronically infected with an immune deficiency virus similar to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
A collaborative study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute as part of the Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism Consortium (INIA) have identified some 3,800 "unique genes" that may determine a predisposition for a high degree of alcohol intake.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a class of compounds that block the SARS virus from replicating, a finding that may open the door to new drug targets against the deadly disease.
A group of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown that the amyloid protein structure, which has been linked to neurodegeneration in diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's, carries out an important functional role in human physiology.
Scientists have discovered that certain chemical chaperones help increase the activity of various types of glucocerebrosidase, the enzyme lacking in patients with Gaucher (go-SHAY) disease.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that a compound extracted from soy beans is a natural and potent inhibitor of a pathological process involved in a number of "amyloid" diseases, including a cluster of ailments called the familial amyloidoses.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Florida are reporting the results of one of the first studies looking at the long-term neurological effects of nicotine addiction on the brain's reward system. Their findings may have significant implications for people who are trying to quit smoking.
San Diego business leader and philanthropist John J. Moores has contributed $4 million to The Scripps Research Institute to establish the Worm Institute for Research and Medicine to combat the painful, disfiguring, and debilitating diseases borne by worms that afflict hundreds of millions of people in much of the world.
The Scripps Research Institute breaks ground today in Palm Beach County for construction of its 100-acre Scripps Florida campus, dedicated to advanced biomedical research and the application of the latest technologies in drug discovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. De George of Jupiter, Florida, have donated $5 million to The Scripps Research Institute to support biomedical science at the Institute's new campus in Palm Beach County.
The FANTOM Consortium for Genome Exploration Research Group, a large international collection of scientists that includes researchers at The Scripps Research Institute's Florida campus, is reporting the results of a massive multi-year project to map the mammalian "transcriptome."
A team of investigators at The Scripps Research Institute and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation have discovered a way to screen hundreds and potentially thousands of "noncoding" RNA molecules to discover their functions within cells.
A team of scientists have been awarded a $4.2 million five-year grant to conduct basic science aimed at speeding the rate at which the next generation of DNA sequencing technologies will become available to scientists and clinicians.
This marks the 6th week of an 8-week internship for twenty one students and three teachers. Over the summer, each intern becomes a member of a basic biomedical lab at Scripps, contributes to one or more research projects, and attends specially designed events including lunch seminars and a biotech company tour.
A consortium of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and several other California institutions has been awarded a $52.7 million grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Researchers have been awarded a $10.4 million dollar grant from the NIH to establish The Scripps Research Institute Molecular Screening Center, a pilot program to discover small molecule tools for quickly translating basic biomedical discoveries into medically relevant applications.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have solved the structure of a protein called MsbA that is involved in resisting antibiotics and chemotherapy. The structure of this membrane transporter protein is described in the current issue of the journal Science.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute are reporting that mice created to lack a certain type of molecule known as an LPA receptor have fertility problems, which suggests that these receptors play a major role in conception.
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