Richard Lerner's Bioinspiration: Biomolecular Visualization and Modeling at Scripps Research

The Scripps Research Institute.

Dr. Sacks' goal is'to humanize medicine; to recognize ihe link between body and soul. In 1970 he published his first book, Migraine, in which he explored the neuropsychiatric omponents of migraine headaches. While completing the book he went to work in a New York hospital where he encountered a group of patients who were to have a profound effect on his life's work. Survivors of the epidemic of...

The Scripps Research Institute

Lansbury and Caughey state in their Primer on prion proteins [1] “Mice lacking the PrP gene, first produced by Charles Weissmann and colleagues, are viable, but have altered neuronal function and develop neurological abnormalities later in life.” This statement is misleading. The PrP-knockout mice produced in our laboratory [2] do not show neurological abnormalities at any time and we have neve...

Biological Research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

As has already been announced in SciENCE and the newspaper press, the name of the Scripps Institution was changed on October 14, 1925, by the negents of the University of California from Scripps Institution for Biological Research to Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California. ·rD. connection with the change in name it seems de~irable to . make entirely clear the relati...

The Scripps Research Institute Neurobiology

The Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps

in parallel with the maintenance of a much larger inhouse research establishment than that which had existed before the war. Both the academic and Navy communities were motivated by the probability that the USSR would, as they did, initiate an energetic development of submarine capabilities built on technology and personnel drawn from Germany. The key scientist at this point was Carl Eckart, an...