Close-Up View

"This summer's program was a great success," said Deborah Leach-Scampavia, Scripps Florida's Education and Outreach administrator. "Students and teachers got a close-up view of what goes into basic research in fields from cancer biology to bioinformatics."

Among the research projects the interns tackled were those involving the study of prion proteins (shown here, in green, expressed in cultured neurons). Prion proteins are a cause of mad cow disease.