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The Scripps Research scientists leading the Huang Foundation-supported projects. From left: Terrence Messmer, Sarah Burbach, Matthew Holcomb, Bryan Briney, Stefano Forli, Benjamin Cravatt, Christopher Parker, Andrew Ward and Charles Bowman.
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Scripps Research garners major support for AI innovations in biomedicine with compute grant from Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation

Chi-Huey Wong.
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Scripps Research professor Chi-Huey Wong to receive ACS Alfred Bader Award

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  • Want to know which mutations are really risky? New Scripps Research method may help
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    Want to know which mutations are really risky? New Scripps Research method may help

    New Scripps Research method may help.

  • World-leading scientific research institute debuts new name and look
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    World-leading scientific research institute debuts new name and look

    Scripps Research is Science Changing Life

  • New urine dipstick test detects cause of disease that blinds millions
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    New urine dipstick test detects cause of disease that blinds millions

    The new test could give public health officials and doctors critical information for tracking river blindness outbreaks and treating current infections.

  • Chemist Ryan Shenvi wins Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award
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    Chemist Ryan Shenvi wins Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award

    "I'm surprised and honored to be listed among the distinguished awardees," says Shenvi.

  • Professor John Yates receives international honor
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    Professor John Yates receives international honor

    Yates’s research in mass spectrometry has been fundamental in establishing the field of large-scale proteomics, a discipline that has shed light on diseases such as malaria and anthrax.

  • Quest for safer pain medications garners $3.6 million, five-year grant
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    Quest for safer pain medications garners $3.6 million, five-year grant

    With new funding, researchers aim to control pain without the risk of addiction.

  • How a ‘jellyfish’-shaped structure relieves pressure in your cells
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    How a ‘jellyfish’-shaped structure relieves pressure in your cells

    Scientists at Scripps Research have solved the structure of a key protein that senses when our cells swell.

  • Scripps Research team awarded $2 million to study brain circuitry driving alcohol dependence
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    Scripps Research team awarded $2 million to study brain circuitry driving alcohol dependence

    Neuroscientist Candice Contet and colleagues to take a close look how an understudied brain region promotes alcohol drinking.

  • Doctors may be able to enlist a mysterious enzyme to stop internal bleeding
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    Doctors may be able to enlist a mysterious enzyme to stop internal bleeding

    "This opens up new options for treating diseases of the blood."

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    Scripps Research scientists uncover unexpected role for two proteins as immune system regulators

    An unexpected discovery in two disease-linked proteins could shed light on human immune system disorders, including a rare and often fatal childhood disease.

  • Ebola virus experts discover powerful, new approach for future therapeutics
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    Ebola virus experts discover powerful, new approach for future therapeutics

    This landmark study is the first-ever side-by-side comparison of 171 antibodies against Ebola virus.

  • Best of both worlds: Combining two skeleton-building chemical reactions provides powerful tool for building new drugs
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    Best of both worlds: Combining two skeleton-building chemical reactions provides powerful tool for building new drugs

    Scripps Research scientists have developed a powerful new strategy for synthesizing molecular skeletons of chemicals used in drugs and other important products

  • Researchers look to worms for a new model of a peripheral nervous system disease
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    Researchers look to worms for a new model of a peripheral nervous system disease

    Scientists have discovered that a microscopic roundworm develops similar nerve damage to human patients when their muscle cells are genetically engineered to produce TTR proteins.

  • New antibody analysis accelerates rational vaccine design
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    New antibody analysis accelerates rational vaccine design

    "We can now watch antibody responses evolve almost in real time."

  • Scripps Research and Bristol-Myers Squibb scientists create atomic glue gun to build better nucleic acid therapeutics
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    Scripps Research and Bristol-Myers Squibb scientists create atomic glue gun to build better nucleic acid therapeutics

    New method for precisely controlling 3D architecture of critical linkages used in potential therapeutics.

  • New strategy for cancer therapy spells double trouble for tumors
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    New strategy for cancer therapy spells double trouble for tumors

    "This could give us a way to kill tumors without harming normal cells..."

  • Scientists get first look at T cell responses in Ebola virus survivors
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    Scientists get first look at T cell responses in Ebola virus survivors

    New Scripps Research study offers guidance for more effective Ebola vaccines.

  • Keary Engle receives Bristol-Myers Squibb award
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    Keary Engle receives Bristol-Myers Squibb award

    The $75,000 in award funding will support Engle’s work to invent new tools to make new drug candidates quickly, efficiently and sustainably.

  • The Scripps Research Institute expands faculty with five new members
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    The Scripps Research Institute expands faculty with five new members

    "We’re very pleased to have these stellar scientists join our faculty."

  • Mobile health devices diagnose hidden heart condition in at-risk populations
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    Mobile health devices diagnose hidden heart condition in at-risk populations

    "Our study shows an almost threefold improvement in the rate of diagnosis of AFib in the those actively monitored compared to usual care."

  • Mobile health technologies accurately measure new cardiovascular ‘vital signs’
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    Mobile health technologies accurately measure new cardiovascular ‘vital signs’

    There's new evidence that cardiovascular risk factors can be accurately measured and tracked independently outside of a physician’s office using new mobile health technologies.

    Steven Steinhubl
  • A well-known animal health drug could stop outbreaks of malaria and Zika virus
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    A well-known animal health drug could stop outbreaks of malaria and Zika virus

    The researchers estimated that a single human dose of the drugs would convey an insecticide effect against mosquitos and sand flies lasting 50–90 days.

    Calibr-Skaggs Matt Tremblay
  • Some existing anti-cancer drugs may act in part by targeting RNA, study shows
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    Some existing anti-cancer drugs may act in part by targeting RNA, study shows

    The research offers another approach for tackling diseases that have been considered “undruggable,” including ALS, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and certain cancers.

  • 2019 Priestley Medal goes to K. Barry Sharpless
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    2019 Priestley Medal goes to K. Barry Sharpless

    "Dr. Sharpless has made numerous contributions to chemistry that have each significantly moved the field forward."

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