Research Highlights

May 2008

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A New Kind of Sea Map

Researchers peer into organisms in the search for molecules with therapeutic promise

A new type of map is emerging through collaborative research conducted in Scripps laboratories at the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine and the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

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Probing Mars for Life

New life-probing instrument reaches next critical step to prepare for mission to Mars

Is there life on Mars? How would it compare to that on Earth? These questions and many others are closer to being answered as a new state-of-the-art instrument developed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego prepares for a mission to the Red Planet in 2013.

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CAPPS

CAPPS Takes Off

The sources of Southern California smog are identified in a unique survey

Southern California is as famous for its smog as it is for its otherwise pleasant weather. But where does that smog come from?

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