Scripps Research scientists unveil promising new HIV vaccine strategy
November 26, 2018 LA JOLLA, CA – A new candidate HIV vaccine from Scripps Research surmounts technical hurdles that stymied previous vaccine efforts, and stimulates a powerful anti-HIV antibody response in animal tests. The new vaccine strategy, described in a paper on November 23 in [...]
TSRI Scientists Stabilize HIV Structure, Design Potential AIDS Vaccine Candidates
Findings Represent ‘Big Accomplishment’ in Biomedical Engineering and Design LA JOLLA, CA – June 28, 2016 – Want to catch a criminal? Show a mugshot on the news. Want to stop HIV infections? Get the immune system to recognize and attack the virus’s tell-tale structure. [...]
TSRI Scientists Get First-Ever Glimpse of ‘Teenage’ HIV-Neutralizing Antibody
LA, JOLLA, CA – April 5, 2016 – Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and collaborating institutions have described the first-ever immature or “teenage” antibody found in a powerful class of immune molecules effective against HIV. “This is actually the first example of how [...]
Researchers Demonstrate Ion Torrent-based Sequencing Methods for B-cell Antibody Profiling
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Investigators at the Scripps Research Institute, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital have come up with a set of next-generation sequencing techniques for profiling antibody repertoires of immune B cells — collections that provide [...]
Noted Vaccine and Bioinformatics Researcher Joins The Scripps Research Institute
LA JOLLA, CA, February 22, 2013 — The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has appointed Jiang Zhu, PhD, to its faculty. Zhu joins the institute from the National Institutes of Health, where held a position as staff scientist and helped establish the Structural Bioinformatics Core Section [...]