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Scripps Florida business development focus
Quoting Scripps Vice President for Business Development Scott Forrest in the latest issue of Scripps’ News & Views:
Florida is also large part of our plan. We’re working on a similar five-year strategic approach to partnering on the Florida campus. Key to that approach is securing one or two significant [...]
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Most lethal known species of prion protein identified at Scripps
Scripps Florida researchers have identified a single prion protein that causes neuronal death similar to that seen in “mad cow” disease, but is at least 10 times more lethal than larger prion species.
This toxic single molecule or “monomer” challenges the prevailing concept that neuronal damage is linked to the toxicity [...]
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New method for creating tissue engineering scaffolds
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new method for creating scaffolds for tissue engineering applications, providing an alternative that is more flexible and less time-intensive than current technology.
A paper describing the results, Low-Pressure Foaming: A Novel Method for the Fabrication of Porous Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering, was featured in [...]
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FDA-approved drug clears amyloid from the brain, reverses Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice
One of the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease has nothing to do with memory or cognition—it’s the loss of the sense of smell. Now, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have learned more about why the sense fails in Alzheimer’s patients and have even restored smell in [...]
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Scripps Research Develops & Licenses New Instrumentation Platform to Improve Compound Management
Scripps Research Institute scientists have designed and licensed a major new technology that dramatically improves the quality control and management of compounds used for high-throughput screening, a process that can be used to search for potential new drugs.
The Plate AuditorTM was designed by Peter Hodder, senior scientific director, and his [...]
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UM Miller School Study Identifies Master Regulator for Schizophrenia
A team of researchers led by Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D., the University of Miami Miller School’s associate dean for therapeutic innovation, has pinpointed a “master” regulatory molecule in the brain that is altered in people with schizophrenia. The finding could facilitate the development of better drugs for the debilitating psychiatric [...]
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First Max Planck Florida Institute Brain Bee Challenge Winners
More than 50 Palm Beach County students in grades 9-12 registered to experience a ‘different kind of brainstorm’ this past Saturday, Feb. 4 , at the inaugural Max Planck Florida Institute Brain Bee Challenge. Similar to a spelling bee in format, the oral competition was designed to test students’ knowledge [...]
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Life Is Too Short
Life happens. Sometimes, when life is lifing at you, it’s seems so hard to feel safe. You feel small, invisible, buffeted around and generally a victim of the whims of fate. You wake up thinking, ‘what next?’ Or you wait for the other shoe to fall. In a marriage, you [...]
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