Evidence uncovered in Florence, Italy supports a theory that a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting resides behind a superimposed mural. At stake, is confirmation of the painting “The Battle of Anghiari,” commissioned in 1503, and considered by some as one of da Vinci’s most significant works.
Research advances at The Scripps Research Institute are the cornerstone of the new drug Surfaxin® (lucinactant), approved this month by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat infant respiratory distress syndrome. The life-threatening condition occurs when premature infants are born before their bodies are sufficiently developed to produce the lung-coating surfactant that keeps air sacs open and makes normal breathing possible.
In recent months, La Jolla has been the center of research “firsts” that promise to significantly advance efforts to better understand and ultimately conquer type 1 diabetes. In each case, front and center has been the work of Matthias von Herrath, M.D., director of the Center for Type 1 Diabetes Research, at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology.
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Health, and collaborating cancer physicians have demonstrated the effectiveness of an advanced blood test for detecting and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs); the breakaway cells from patients’ solid tumors.
The new test labels cells in a patient’s blood sample distinguishing possible CTCs from ordinary red and white blood cells. A digital microscope and an image-processing algorithm then isolate suspected cancer cells that differ from healthy cells by their size and shape. Just as in a surgical biopsy, a pathologist can examine the images of suspected CTCs to eliminate false positives.
Fighting fire in a confined space presents challenges. Imagine if that confined space is the International Space Station where there is no up or down and where atmosphere and pressure are tightly controlled.
It’s not your imagination. Weather is becoming more “extreme,” leading to prolonged heat waves, heavier precipitation, severe flooding, more powerful hurricanes, and intense snowstorms. In the past 31 years, the United States has sustained 112 weather-related disasters in which damage costs reached or exceeded $1 billion, according to the National Climate Data Center.
Biologists and bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have created a “living neon sign” composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking holiday bulbs. Their achievement, detailed the journal Nature, involved attaching a fluorescent protein to the biological clocks of the bacteria, synchronizing the clocks of the thousands [...]
An international team led by the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a family of chemical compounds that could lead to new antimalarial drugs.
A study by researchers at the UC San Diego Autism Center of Excellence shows that brain overgrowth in boys with autism involves an abnormal, excess number of neurons in areas of the brain associated with social, communication, and cognitive development.
U.S. wireless use is growing rapidly and if present trends continue, will outstrip capacity, causing congestion. This is the conclusion of a new report from the Global Information Industry Center at UCSD.
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