Discovery Supports a Surprising New View of How Life on Earth Originated
Discovery boosts theory that life on our planet arose from RNA-DNA mix. Chemists at Scripps Research have made a discovery that supports a surprising new…
Discovery boosts theory that life on our planet arose from RNA-DNA mix. Chemists at Scripps Research have made a discovery that supports a surprising new…
Researchers engineer RNA-targeting compounds that disable the pandemic coronavirus’ replication engine. Scripps Research chemist Matthew Disney, Ph.D., and colleagues have created drug-like compounds that, in…
The findings support many vaccine strategies being used to tackle the new coronavirus. A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has discovered a common…
Many flu strains may be capable of mutating to escape universal-vaccine antibodies. Some common strains of influenza have the potential to mutate to evade broad-acting…
Analysis of data from 16 groups of COVID-19 patients suggest ‘silent’ carriers may exacerbate efforts to stop spread of the disease. An extraordinary percentage of…
Billiard-like break shot to cell-membrane structures triggers brain’s loss of consciousness from anesthesia, scientists find. Surgery would be inconceivable without general anesthesia, so it may…
IBM’s World Community Grid hosts Scripps Research project to virtually screen chemical compounds that might help fight COVID-19. Under a collaboration between IBM and Scripps…
A Scripps Research study reveals a likely site of vulnerability on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. An antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in…
Scripps Research’s analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or…
An unexpected approach blurs the line between synthetic drug molecules and natural products, with the goal of achieving higher quality compounds for medicines. In a…
The little-known protein is normally abundant in fat; without it, the body struggles to manage glucose and insulin. With unexpected findings about a protein that’s…
New method offers an easy route for making bilobalide and related compounds so scientists can explore their potential uses as drugs and pesticides. Chemists at…
Compounds called cyclophospholipids would have held up against the planet’s harsh conditions, helping the first cells form and proliferate. Researchers must dissect the building blocks…
A team at Scripps Research in Florida has discovered a biological system that manages cells’ response to opioid drug exposure. The unexpected discovery offers new…
Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a fascinating new theory for how life on Earth may have begun. Their experiments, described today…
A team of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a compound that may have been a crucial factor in the origins of…
A team of researchers has found HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibody precursor B cells that are present in most people, and has described the design of…
In a new study, researchers show that a new drug candidate blocks every strain of HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV that has been isolated from humans…