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Scripps in the News

• Palm Beach Post -- November 15, 2008
  Science meets art in Scripps building and spire
  From a distance, the three buildings that form The Scripps Research Institute's new complex resemble large, randomly sized blocks stacked in a Frank Gehry-esque pile.
  
  
• San Diego Union-Tribune -- November 6, 2008
  Scripps improves reprogramming of cells - method won't destroy embryos
  Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute have identified a combination of druglike chemicals that can be used to reprogram human cells to become similar to embryonic stem cells so that they may develop into all the cell types in the body.
  
  
• HealthDay -- October 31, 2008
  Scientists Develop New Strategy to Fight Obesity
  An antibody that breaks down and suppresses an appetite stimulant produced by the human body has been discovered.
  
  
• Sun Sentinel -- October 30, 2008
  Scripps Research Institute moving into new home on FAU campus in Jupiter
  Coffee mugs, computers and mass spectrometers? Packed and ready to go.
  
  
• Palm Beach Daily News -- October 25, 2008
  Scripps Florida, Cultural Council to showcase Palm Beach County artists
  The Scripps Florida facility scheduled to open early next year in Jupiter will be more than a home for cutting-edge science.
  
  
• North County Times -- October 24, 2008
  CHEMISTRY: Changing the world, one molecule at a time
  While the Industrial Revolution focused on big projects — steel mills, coal mines and oil fields — the molecular age focuses on manipulating the microscopic.
  
  
• United Press International, Inc -- October 22, 2008
  Study seeks new cancer immunotherapy
  U.S. medical scientists say they are working to develop new human immunotherapy in an effort to increase both innate and adaptive cancer immunity.
  
  
• HealthDay -- October 14, 2008
  Scientists ID Virus That Infects Cancer Cells
  New details about the structure of a virus that can infect lung cancer cells have been uncovered by researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California.
  
  
• San Diego Union-Tribune -- October 1, 2008
  Scientists worldwide teaming up for project
  A $30 million grant announced yesterday enables The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla to create the world's only center dedicated to the "neutralizing antibody" approach, a promising way to develop an AIDS vaccine.
  
  
• Reuters -- September 16, 2008
  Drug reverses Huntington's symptoms in mice: study
  A drug compound showed promise at reversing Huntington's disease in mice without the toxic effects seen in similar compounds, raising hope for a treatment for this fatal, hereditary brain disorder, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
  
  
• La Jolla Light -- September 16, 2008
  Scripps finds gene critical to deafness
  Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a new gene they say is essential for both hearing and balance in mice and humans. They found that a mutation in this gene causes a form of deafness that has nothing to do with structural proteins in the inner ear commonly altered in hereditary deafness. On the contrary, the mutation affects an enzyme with a known catalytic function, which gives hints as to how the problem might be preventable with novel drug therapy.
  
  
• Palm Beach Post -- September 9, 2008
  Signs of Scripps health
  Federal agencies are using a throw-the-spaghetti-against-the-wall approach on new treatments for disease, and Scripps Florida is at the center of it.
  
  
• San Diego Union-Tribune -- September 2, 2008
  Scripps gets $80 million grant
  The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded more than $80 million – its largest grant ever – to be a research hub in a federally funded network that will ferret out new targets in the body that play a key role in disease.
  
  
• South Florida Business Journal -- Friday, August 29, 2008
  Scripps Florida Scientist Launches Company
  Claes Wahlestedt, who heads Scripps Florida's efforts to develop drugs for diseases of the central nervous system, has launched new company with business consultant and longtime friend Joe Collard.
  
  
• La Jolla Light -- Monday, August 25, 2008
  Scripps Discovers Gene Responsible for Childhood Cancer
  Researchers at San Diego's Scripps Translational Science Institute have discovered a gene responsible for the majority of inherited causes of a common childhood cancer.
  
  
• Boston Globe -- Sunday, August 24, 2008
  Cultivating the Next Big Idea Company
  Some new research at Kelly's lab at the Scripps Research Institute in California was starting to show promise; it dealt with the way cells stay healthy - or fall prey to disease - by managing the production of proteins.
  
  
• ScienceNews -- Sunday, August 24, 2008
  Stem Cells, Show Your Face
  A new test distinguishes embryonic stem cells and those with equal therapeutic potential from other, less capable stem cell types.
  
  
• HealthDay News -- Thursday, August 21, 2008
  Scientists ID New Proteins in Programmed Cell Death
  U.S. researchers have identified 170 more proteins to add to the 91 already known to be associated with programmed cell death, or apoptosis.
  
  
• North County Times -- Saturday, August 16, 2008
  Young Scientists Spend a Summer in the Lab
  La Jolla -- A few top science students from North County traded their textbooks for lab coats this summer, working in a prestigious internship program at The Scripps Research Institute.
  
  
• NewKerala -- August 7, 2008
  Scientists Uncover New Cellular Repair Mechanism in Yeast
  Biologists at the Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a new cellular repair mechanism in a study on yeast.
  
  
• MarketWatch -- July 30, 2008
  Workforce Alliance Receives U.S. Labor Department's Excellence Award
  Workforce Alliance received the U.S. Department of Labor's Recognition of Excellence Award in the category of "Educating America's Workforce to Serve Emerging Industries."
  
  
• Palm Beach Post -- July 24, 2008
  High-schoolers soak up serious science and get own lab coats at Scripps in Jupiter
  Harrison Sarner is spending his summer vacation researching the role of RNA for Alzheimer's disease research. And the senior at Jupiter High School is loving every minute.
  
  
• Voice of San Diego -- July 24, 2008
  Commentary: New Method for Deriving Stem Cells Allows Focus on Important Ethical Questions
  As noted by Darryn Bennett in her July 16 voiceofsandiego.org article, new methods of reprogramming adult skin cells offer an alternative to human embryonic stem cells, but "other ethical questions surrounding access and the testing process" remain.
  
  
• WPTV Channel 5 -- July 14, 2008
  PBC students spend summer in lab coats
  The six-week internship gives them hands-on experience, learning from scientists on real projects, such as detecting the Hepatitis C virus.
  
  
• Reuters -- July 9, 2008
  Frozen Ebola virus reveals its deadly spike
  Researchers who have managed to freeze the Ebola virus and make images of the spike it uses to infect cells said on Wednesday they hope their work may lead to a treatment or vaccine for the deadly microbe.
  
  
• Town-Crier -- June 27, 2008
  Wellington Businessman Elected Scripps Institute Trustee
  International business leader and entrepreneur Amin J. Khoury has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Scripps Research Institute, a world leader in biomedical science with laboratories in La Jolla, Calif.
  
  
• La Jolla Light -- June 25, 2008
  Scripps finds drug eases addiction
  New findings from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute provide evidence that the drug gabapentin affects certain components of the alcohol addiction cycle in the brain...
  
  
• Bloomberg -- June 20, 2008
  AIDS Failure at Merck Elevates Burton Vaccine for 2 Million
  On a sunny March afternoon, Dennis Burton draws his office blinds...
  
  
• The Boston Globe -- June 18, 2008
  Millipore awards stem-cell research grant
  Millipore Corp. today said it has awarded a $150,000 grant to Jeanne Loring...
  
  
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- June 4, 2008
  Researchers tweak stem cell creation
  Researchers from California say they have improved a groundbreaking technique that reprograms skin cells back to the embryonic state...
  
  
• Telegraph -- June 4, 2008
  Embryo-free stem cell research gets boost
  A major advance in transforming one kind of cell into another is reported today that will likely to render plans to clone human embryos...
  
  
• Science Daily -- June 4, 2008
  How Defects In One Gene Causes Three Devestating Diseases; Risk For Cancer, Early Aging
  The protein XPD is one component of an essential repair mechanism...
  
  
• New Scientist -- June 4, 2008
  Epilepsy drug may help calm alcoholic cravings
  A DRUG that prevents seizures might help wean alcoholics...
  
  
• Medical News Today -- June 4, 2008
  Molecular Changes In Brain Fluid Give Insight Into Brain-Damaging Disease
  Soon after an individual becomes infected with HIV the virus infects cells in the brain...
  
  
• San Diego Union Tribune -- May 30, 2008
  Fledgling Scripps facility gets $20 million NIH grant
  The Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla received a $20 million, five-year grant...
  
  
• Palm Beach Post -- May 14, 2008
  Scripps, Torrey reach anti-cancer deals with biotechs
  Scripps Florida and the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies have separately completed licensing deals for potential cancer treatments...
  
  
• San Diego Union-Tribune -- May 8, 2008
  Stem cell group gets its first building block
  The fundraising has only just begun. The San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine yesterday received a $43 million grant from the state stem cell institute...
  
  
• San Diego Business Journal -- April 21, 2008
  Scripps Research Team Reexamines MicroRNA Profile
  An international team of researchers, led by the Scripps Research Institute, used a new approach in discovering that human embryonic stem cells share the same profile of microRNAs...
  
  
• San Diego Union-Tribune -- April 20, 2008
  Researchers Envision Stem Cell Lab - Major S.D. institutes would collaborate
  San Diego's four largest research institutes plan to build the nation's first-of-its-kind stem cell center, which scientists have dubbed a "collaboratory," in La Jolla...
  
  
• San Diego Union-Tribune -- March 26, 2008
  Scripps starts center focused on stem cells
  Scripps Research Institute, renowned for its work in drug development and medicinal chemistry, is making a bigger commitment to stem cell research...
  
  
• San Diego Union-Tribune -- March 14, 2008
  Study aims to clear haze surrounding pot addiction
  Atrophy of the brain and cirrhosis of the liver are long-term side effects of heavy alcohol dependence...
  
  
• Jupiter Courier -- March 1, 2008
  Scripps Florida starts hiring workers
  Although Scripps Florida's building in Jupiter won't be completed for about 10 months, local residents could be able to start a job...
  
  
• The Times of India -- February 28,2008
  Potential drug targets for sepsis found
  In a study on mice, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found new drug targets for sepsis by identifying an important pathway involving the vascular coagulation system ...
  
  
• Physorg.com -- February 28,2008
  Bright Lights: Mystery of glowing antibody solved
  A chance discovery of a uniquely luminescent monoclonal antibody nearly ten years ago has proven to be far more interesting -- and far more tenacious...