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As a girl in Germany, Brunhilde Felding-Habermann was
enchanted by her school’s biology lab. Now a Scripps Research
scientist, she has her own wonder-filled lab – where cells are
engineered to produce firefly sparks of light that help
researchers follow them as they move through a mouse’s body,
where scientists talk of metastatic cascades and analyze
Seurat-like images under microscopes, and where researchers
have the freedom and the resources to explore their ideas to
the fullest. Most enchanting, though, is the
promise that her breakthrough work holds for preventing the
spread of breast cancer to other organs.
Milestones in Medical Science
What if, rather than undergoing an invasive procedure
to take a biopsy of tumor cells, cancer patients could simply
have a blood sample taken? Scripps
Research Professor of Cell Biology Peter Kuhn and his team are
investigating this possibility.
Other News
Not long ago, scientists learned about the structure of
proteins by studying the geometric patterns in a crystallized
version of the protein. But turning the protein into a solid –
crystallizing it – was a slow and difficult process. Today,
crystallography is still an important branch of biomedical
study, and crystallization just got easier – thanks to a new
process developed by Scripps Research associate professor
Kendall Nettles.
What sounds like a specialized area of study is quickly
uncovering real world results. In Kendall Nettles’s hunt for a
way to accelerate the crystallization of steroid receptors,
his team made what may be a game-changing
discovery for the treatment of cancer.
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| Facts & Figures |
| October is National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month… but every single day of the year, our
scientists focus on a disease that kills 40,000 people
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The Clock Never
Stops
In 2008 alone, an estimated 184,450
new cases of breast cancer have been diagnosed in the
United States, according to the National Cancer
Institute. Scripps Research scientists are conducting
promising new research, but rely on your support to
speed their discoveries from laboratory to bedside.
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Outreach
In Her Honor
Women across the globe struggle
nobly against breast cancer every day. And each day
scientists like Brunhilde Felding-Habermann, Peter Kuhn,
and Kendall Nettles work ceaselessly to develop new
treatments. What better way to pay tribute to the women
you love than to make
a gift in their honor to further Scripps Research’s
life-saving
research?
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