
A new issue of the online weekly of The Scripps Research Institute, News&Views, is now available at http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews
In this week's issue:
	Team Discovers a Better Way to Make Unnatural Amino Acids The Yu lab’s findings, reported in the journal Science, have potential applications in cancer, infectious disease and Alzheimer’s drug development.
	Building New Drugs Just Got Easier The Yu lab has published a Nature paper describing a method for modifying organic molecules that significantly expands the possibilities for developing new pharmaceuticals and improving old ones.
	New Probes Quantify Folded and Misfolded Protein Levels in Cells The findings from the Kelly lab pave the way to discover new drugs for misfolding diseases such as Alzhimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyloidosis and prion ("mad cow" type) infections.
	Renowned Biologist Karla Kirkegaard to Lead Department of Infectious Diseases Kirkegaard, whose laboratory studies the biochemistry, cell biology and genetics of RNA viral propagation, will join Scripps Florida in the fall.
	Leonard Jones (1956-2014) Friends recall Leonard Jones, who worked at TSRI as a maintenance mechanic for 14 years.
	TSRI Intern Eric Chen Wins Third National Science Competition

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