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Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology ; Genetics Article Date: 13 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has found how to boost or inhibit a gene-silencing mechanism that normally serves as a major controller of cells' activities.

SD Young Artists Symphony students, Nathan Kim and Ella Quini, at a rehearsal at Mesa College on Saturday, April 27.

The vaccine targets heroin and its psychoactive breakdown products in the bloodstream, preventing them from reaching the brain, explained the scientists from The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has found how to boost or inhibit a gene -silencing mechanism that normally serves as a major controller of cells' activities.

May 9, 2013 - Ardem Patapoutian, professor in the Dorris Neuroscience Center at The Scripps Research Institute , has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, based on demonstrated potential to contribute significantly to biomedical science.

May 9, 2013 - A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has found how to boost or inhibit a gene-silencing mechanism that normally serves as a major controller of cells' activities.

By David Wagner, KPBS Vaccines usually protect us from invaders, priming our immune systems to combat nasty pathogens if they should ever find their way inside us.

Though this advanced new treatment has thusfar only been tested on lab rats, U.S. scientists have developed what they think is an effective vaccine against the heady effects of heroin.

The Scripps Research Institute today announced a five-year agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have reported successful preclinical tests of a new vaccine against heroin.

David Goodsell of the Scripps Research Institute made this lovely watercolor illustration of a cell of Mycoplasma mycoides.

Solving the structure of a critical human molecule involved in cancer, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found what they call a good example of structural conservation - dissimilar genes that keep very similar shapes.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have reported successful preclinical tests of a new vaccine against heroin.

Researchers hope a procedure using patients' own stem cells will cure Parkinson's Disease, or at least eliminate symptoms for decades.

An administrative law judge ruled to overturn the state's approval of a new Tenet Healthcare Corp.

Solving the structure of a critical human molecule involved in cancer, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found what they call a good example of structural conservation-dissimilar genes that keep very similar shapes.

Proteins, the workhorses of the body, can have more than one function, but they often need to be very specific in their action or they create cellular havoc, possibly leading to disease.

From the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA ; Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA ; Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA ; Section of ... (more)

Proteins, the workhorses of the body, can have more than one function, but they often need to be very specific in their action or they create cellular havoc, possibly leading to disease.

Despite decades of research, relatively little is known about the identity of RNA molecules that are transported as part of the molecular process underpinning learning and memory.