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Potential of anti-stress peptide to block alcohol dependence
New research by scientists at the Scripps Research Institute has underlined the power of an endogenous anti-stress peptide in the brain to prevent and even reverse some of the cellular effects of acute alcohol and alcohol dependence in …
Scripps Research scientists create cell assembly line
JUPITER, FL, March 3, 2011 — Borrowing a page from modern manufacturing, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have built a microscopic assembly line that mass produces synthetic cell-like compartments.
The new com…
Scripps Research study points to liver, not brain, as origin of Alzheimer’s plaques
LA JOLLA, CA — March 3, 2011 — Unexpected results from a Scripps Research Institute and ModGene, LLC study could completely alter scientists’ ideas about Alzheimer’s disease — pointing to the liver instead of the brain as the source of the “am…
Scripps Research study sheds light on RNA ‘on/off switches’
LA JOLLA, CA — Embargoed by the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology until February 13, 2011, 1 PM Eastern time — Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shed new light on a molecular switch that turns genes on or off in r…
Scripps Research compound blocks brain cell destruction in Parkinson’s disease
JUPITER, FL, February 11, 2011 — Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have produced the first known compound to show significant effectiveness in protecting brain cells directly affected by Parkinson’s disease, a pr…
Scientists develop method to identify fleetingly ordered protein structures
LA JOLLA, CA — February 8, 2011 – A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have developed a novel technique to observe previously unknown details of how folded structures are forme…
Scripps Research scientists convert skin cells to beating heart cells
LA JOLLA, CA — Scripps Research Institute scientists have converted adult skin cells directly into beating heart cells efficiently without having to first go through the laborious process of generating embryonic-like stem cells. The powerful gener…