scripts research in La Hoya is celebrating a century of transforming human health the nonprofit biomed Institute is one of the best in the world when it comes to Innovation and has saved countless lives CBS Jenny day has more and house scripts research is working for our community it started 100 years ago through philanthropy it continues that way now our lab works on a lot of different projects scripts research home six Nobel prizes 15 FDA approved medications and more than a thousand patents s
ome of the most Brilliant Minds in the world are right here kind of focus primarily on vaccine development so HIV flu malaria it's marginal steps that we take in science you know but it's a it's a global kind of a team effort so it's a great feeling knowing that I'm just a you know a piece of this and contributing something important to the the group effort two of their top scientists very humbly invited me inside their lab we put our sample in here 10 years ago when we started working here it t
ook a week to collect the data and then about 3 months to get a high resolution structure and then now it takes less than an hour to go from collection to a high resolution structure so it's just exponentially growing celebrating their Centennial mileston scripts has studied everything from cancer research heart disease arthritis and help develop vaccines against infectious diseases is one thing I'm really proud of is before Co happened we worked on the MS virus and we helped develop a little tw
eak to the spike protein that allowed it to be more stable and that little tweak went into all the vaccines that are out so it's pretty cool to be kind of directly a part of something like that 100 years ago it was Ellen Browning scripts who shared the same big goals the philanthropist and journalist had an interest in diabetes and after the discovery of insulin opened the institute in 19 24 to see how else science could change medicine the research that they're doing is providing that Foundatio
n to make medicines for some of the most devastating diseases across cancer infectious diseases neurodegenerative diseases we really have it covered at scripts remaining a nonprofit has allowed scripts to do more curiosity-driven research the majority of their funding comes from the National Institutes of Health the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other generous donors getting microscope allows us to work on even more projects and get results out faster and really push science forward dona
tions are always welcome and we will'll take it and we'll do good stuff with it as scripts research enters a new century they say they will continue to pursue bold and transformative ideas that Advance human health and ultimately save lives working for our community in La Hoya Jenny day cbsa an incredible facility uh scripts research also takes in high school interns and trains the next generation of leading scientists something to look into if you do have a high schooler it is consistently name
d among the top 10 programs for chemistry and biological sciences
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