
A new issue of the online weekly of The Scripps Research Institute, News&Views, is now available at http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews
In this week's issue:
	Steroids that Only Nature Could Make on a Large Scale—Until Now The Baran lab has achieved a notable feat in synthetic chemistry, pointing the way to the scalable formation and modification of a variety of useful compounds.
	Scientists Create New Approach to Destroying Disease-Associated RNAs in Cells As a proof-of-principle, the Disney lab has created a molecule that corrects myotonic dystrophy in living cells.
	Chemists Devise Inexpensive, Benchtop Method for Marking and Selecting Cells The Lerner lab has found an easier way to perform one of the most fundamental tasks in molecular biology.
	Researchers Develop New Compound that Reverses Fatty Liver Disease The Burris lab compound can suppress fat production in the liver and lower total cholesterol levels in animal models.
	Study Defines Long-Sought Structure of a Protein Necessary for Cell-Cell Interaction The Izard lab has defined the structure of an elusive protein known as α-catenin.
	Kudos: Peter Vogt Named Albert Einstein Professor by Chinese Academy of Sciences; Leopold Kong Receives Fellowship for AIDS Research