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Teachers Become Students for a Day
Science teachers from across the San Diego Unified School
District attended a seminar at TSRI on trends in research
and the scientific marketplace.
Ceremony
Dedicates Two New Institutes at TSRI
A ribbon-cutting ceremony officially dedicated two new institutes
on campus: the Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases
and the Helen L. Dorris Institute for the Study of Neurological
and Psychiatric Disorders of Children and Adolescents.
$35
Million Alcohol Grant Awarded to Consortium Led by TSRI Researchers
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has
funded a multi-year consortium headed by researchers at The
Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to identify the molecular
basis of alcoholism. "Despite many years of independent study
of the biochemistry and physiology [and] systems and processes
hypothesized to be involved in alcoholism, the mechanisms
are still unclear," says TSRI Professor George F. Koob, who
is the program director of the grant.
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All known forms of life use 20 amino acids and only 20. That
is, until TSRI investigator Peter Schultz and his colleagues
succeeded in adding a novel amino acid, O-methyl-tyrosine,
to the genetic code of E. coli. According to Shultz,
this is only the beginning.
viduals and to stop the spread of the virus.
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