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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:

Study Reveals How Serotonin Receptors Can Shape Drug Effects from LSD to Migraine Medication
The new findings from the Stevens lab help explain why some drugs that interact with serotonin receptors have had unexpectedly complex and sometimes harmful effects.

Scientists Uncover New Compounds that Alter Cell Signaling, Point to New Approaches to Breast Cancer
The findings, from the Nettles lab, shed light on estrogen receptors.

Scripps Florida Scientists Awarded Special Collaborative Grant to Develop
Anti-Addiction Therapies

Associate Professor Paul Kenny and his colleagues have received support for an effort to develop anti-smoking drug candidates to the point of human safety trials.

In Memoriam:
Curtis Burnham Wilson, Jr. (1936-2013)

Professor Emeritus Curtis Wilson, Jr., a world authority on the immunopathology of kidney diseases, joined Scripps in 1968.