TSRI Press Releases

• John J. Moores Donates $4 Million to Scripps Research Institute to Combat Worm-based Diseases Afflicting Millions Worldwide (link)
  
  
• "Fossil Record" of the Human Immune System Reveals Antibodies that Block Cancer Metastasis (link)
  
  
• Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute Develop New Technology For a "Kit" to Screen for Mercury Contamination (link)
  
  
• Treating Cocaine Addiction with Viruses (link)
  
  
• Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute Find A Beneficial Link Between A Nicotine Metabolite and Alzheimer's Disease (link)
  
  
• New Type of Vaccine Against Nicotine Addiction Developed by Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (link)
  
  
• Sepsis Vaccine Proves Protective in Preliminary Studies by Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (link)
  
  
• A Nicotine By-Product Reacts with Proteins, Say Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (link)
  
  
• Human Antibodies Against Spores Found by TSRI Researchers Suggest Powerful New Tool for Detection and Treatment of Anthrax (link)
  
  
• Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute Discover a Previously Unknown Role for Antibodies (link)
  
  
• Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute Develop a New "Kit" to Screen Mercury in Fish (link)
  
  
• Poison Gas Test That Fits in Your Pocket (link)
  
  
• TSRI Scientists Receive Awards from the American Chemical Society (link)
  
  
• Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute Devise New Technique to Catalyze Chemical Reactions (link)
  
  
• Immunization Found to Effectively Block Effects of Cocaine (link)
  
  

Other Press Releases

• “Bacterial Chameleon” Chemical & Engineering News, 83, 38 (2005) (link)
  
  
• “Competitive Signaling” Nature Reviews Microbiology, 3, 192 (2005) (link)
  
  
• Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges, American Chemical Society Press Release, March 16, 2005 (link)
  
  
• Blue fluorescent DNA, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005 (link)
  
  
• Snorted virus dampens rats' cocaine high, New Scientist, 2004 (link)
  
  
• Virus to curb cocaine cravings, BBC News (link)
  
  
• Virus robs addicts of their high, Nature News, 2004 (link)
  
  
• Vaccine hope for blood poisoning, BBC News (link)
  
  
• Nicotine and Alzheimer’s Disease, The Economist (link)
  
  
• Nicotine Byproduct Reduces Alzheimer's Plaques, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA News Archive (link)
  
  
• “Neurodegenerative disease: A puff a day keeps the plaques away?” Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2, 690 (2003) (link)
  
  
• “Science & Technology Roundup” Chemical & Engineering News, 81, 38 (2003)
  
  
• Nicotine By-product Reduces Alzheimer's Telltale Plaques, Scientific American (link)
  
  
• “Tobacco’s Secret Weapon” Environmental Health Perspectives, 111 (2003)
  
  
• Tobacco chemical blamed for disease, BBC News (link)
  
  
• Nicotine “Cooks” Serum Proteins, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA News Archive (link)
  
  
• Nicotine By-product 'Cooks' Body's Proteins (link)
  
  
• “Cooked and Smoked” U.S. News and World Reports, November 11, 2002
  
  
• “Nornicotine catalyzes aldol reactions in H2O” Chemical & Engineering News, 80, 52 (2002)
  
  
• “Smoking Catalysts” Science, 296, 15 (2002)
  
  
• Progress toward a vaccine to fight cocaine addiction is reported, American Chemical Society Press Release, August 23, 1999 (link)