Michael Pollard

We are thrilled to welcome @matthewcobb.bsky.social to talk about his new book Crick: A Mind in Motion!

Moderna's mRNA Flu vaccine and ribosomes are having a party.

now you know

That’s a wrap on our third annual Biotech Innovation Summit! Today, scientists, industry leaders and investors came together at Scripps Research to explore how AI and emerging technologies are helping move discoveries from the lab toward new treatments.

Two years ago today, we dedicated the Chi-Huey Wong Laboratories for Biomedical Research on our campus. See some before-and-afters of the building’s transformation! 🏗️

Tomorrow, Scripps Research professors John Yates III and Jeffery Kelly, both 2026 Canada Gairdner International Award laureates, take the stage at #GairdnerScienceWeek. The free event, hosted by The Gairdner Foundation, will be livestreamed. Register: https://bit.ly/laureatelectures2026

Where Do Autoimmune Diseases Come From? A question that has plagued medical science for decades upon decades. There is no easy answer. Being female can be a significant factor. But genetics, environment, occupation and lifestyle all contribute as do stochastic (random) events.

Congratulations to Scripps Research science writer Melissa Suran, whose story “Life beyond Crohn’s disease” received an honorable mention in the short-form category of the 2026 National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards!

Being the first to make an important discovery, also known as a eureka moment, eludes most of us. But can benefit many.

Scripps Research today received 14M+ compute hours from the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation. Led by Andrew Ward, the grant also supports Bryan Briney and ForliLab on a virtual human immune system and the “dark” proteome, with data from Chris Parker and Benjamin Cravatt.

When Crispin G takes a nap he likes to make sure his foot pads get plenty of air time. #poodles

"School was not easy for me." Medicine laureate Carol Greider achieved success in molecular biology in the same way she overcame dyslexia as a child: with persistence and creativity. Finding it difficult to read the traditional way, she taught herself to memorise words and letter order.

THREAD. A story, in 20 photos and captions, about a uniquely wonderful cat, who has improved my life considerably over the last few years...

www.theterroiristdoc.com/screenings. The Terroirist coming very soon.

This is very worrying. Many autoimmune diseases occur far more often in women than men; the ratio for lupus is about 9:1. Yes, they can be complex disorders and can share symptoms and clinical features but they can also be life threatening. Delay is diagnosis can be a serious issue.

Dogs are our best friends. We can spend a lot of time thinking about them. But I don't know what to think when I see the face of one in a map of the mouse brain.

We’ve all heard their names: multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, to name a handful. Now, an Idaho State University biologist and her students are exploring new ways to fight the autoimmune diseases afflicting millions. #idahostateucose #STEM

Migratory immune cells mediating tissue protection is becoming a hot topic. Equally hot is the reverse response involving migratory cells mediating tissue damage distant from the primary site of inflammation. Mucosal sites play an important role in both good and bad responses.

Congrats to Assoc. Prof. Keren Lasker on receiving a 2026 DARPA Young Faculty Award to engineer biomolecular condensates as “toxin traps” that capture and neutralize toxins. Once developed, Assoc. Prof. Michael G. Constantinides will lead preclinical studies evaluating their effectiveness.

Join Dr. Kelly to explore how his research on protein aggregation led to the discovery of tafamidis, the first effective drug for slowing the progression of a human amyloid disease. 📆Oct 22 | 9AM 📍Toronto & Online 🎟️Free 🔗https://bit.ly/InternationalSymposium2026 #GairdnerScienceWeek @scripps.edu

At the Scripps Research Biotech Innovation Summit, attendees will get an exclusive look at these emerging Scripps Research technologies and the scientists advancing them. 🗓️ Join us on Oct. 22, 2026 | Scripps Research, La Jolla 🎟️ View the program and request to attend: techsummit.scripps.edu/agenda/

A concise history of the discovery of the structure of DNA. The discovery is not, and never was, as simple as many believe.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”

In our last Front Row lecture, Associate Professor Giordano Lippi explored how tiny molecules called microRNAs help control production of the right proteins at the right place and time to build complex networks that drive thought, learning and behavior. Watch now: https://ow.ly/OJPY50ZV9nv

The La Jolla Immunology Conference is at Salk this week. Guess I know where I'll be for the next few days. Bit toasty walking from Scripps to Salk and back again.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly

A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:

Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

He is currently professor of molecular plant physiology at the Department for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics - Botany I, University of Würzburg, Germany. www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/bot1/rese...

He is currently Hertie Senior Professor of Neuroscience at @humboldtuni.bsky.social. www.hu-berlin.de/en/people-de...

Congratulations to our first Nobel Prize laureate of 2026 🎉 Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He seems very happy with the news!

Lights, camera, science! 🎬🔬 Scripps Research Prof. Luke Wiseman and our graduate students joined KUSI News for a sneak peek of tomorrow’s #DiscoveryDay, featuring liquid-nitrogen ice cream and silver mirrors! 🍦🪩

If you are an old guy like me and you can't remember having measles or being vaccinated, get your doc to request a test for IgG Rubeola Antibody. If positive, like me, then you are immune from measles.

Yep, its true. Reading is really important and writing (grants, papers) comes next because you can't do either well without knowledge. But networking is also essential. Not only do people need to know who you are but you need to know people. Rub elbows with the best and brightest. 🧪

Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was. RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system.

When you can, devote a little of your time to this. It will be worth it. 🧪

Rosie Toes has realized that it's Monday and the weekend is days away.

This is such a wonderful summary of vaccination

Biochemist Dr. Ida Stephens Owens mapped how human genes control drug metabolism. The first Black woman to earn a PhD from Duke (1967), she spent ~50 years at NIH. She identified the UGT1A gene complex, decoding how enzymes detoxify drugs & harmful toxins. She was born #OTD in 1939.🧵 #WomenInSTEM

Hanson's ignorance is mind blowing.

Born #OnThisDay in 1907 was geologist and palaeontologist Professor Dorothy Hill FRS. She was the first female professor at an Australian university, first female president of the Australian Academy of Science, and the first Australian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society. #WomenInSTEM

Imagine that - a novel, highly divergent, betacoronavirus with a weird-looking* furin cleavage site popped right out of a bat butt 🦇. You gotta wonder 🤔. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What brings you to Scripps Research? 👀 Maybe you’re here to explore the latest science, meet our researchers, take your next step, attend an event, partner with us or support discovery. Whatever brings you here, the new scripps.edu makes it easier to find your way. 🧵⬇️

A guy who did a reality TV show and his buddy who is a lawyer are not experts on vaccines. Best to look elsewhere for info on the MMR vaccine....like below.

Brilliant piece by @amymaxmen.bsky.social & Jeff Tollefson from 4th August 2020 in @nature.com Decades of pandemic planning scenarios had foreseen "leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines & disputes between state & federal leaders," but none anticipated the dysfunction in the US under Trump

Congrats to Scripps Research EVP Eric Topol for surpassing the milestone of 400,000 citations and an h-index of 259. Topol ranks among the world’s most highly cited researchers, with broad influence in cardiology, genomics, AI, digital health and individualized medicine. 🔗 https://ow.ly/eRra50ZxM4u

An article absolutely worth reading. Many forget (or conveniently dismiss) Fauci's history of service to not just the NIH but to human health especially fighting severe viral infections.