Marine bacteria first discovered off the coast of Puerto Rico more than 50 years ago could one day help clean up toxic pollutants in the environment. Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego researchers uncovered a …

An international team of researchers including those at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of Southampton, U.K., unlocked the secrets behind a non-bioluminescent population of plankton off the U.S. West Coast. They …

Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego want to know what causes an oceanic algal bloom to turn deadly. To find out, researchers are gearing up to hunt for blooms along California’s coast using a …

A team of scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has developed a new way to produce kainic acid, a natural seaweed neurochemical and powerful reagent used …

Jia Jia Zhang just finished the fifth year of her PhD at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. She was born in China and moved to the United States as a young child. She lived …

A team led by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has uncovered the genetic basis for the production of domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin produced by …

The Royal Society of Chemistry announced on May 8 that Bradley Moore, professor of marine chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and chair of pharmaceutical chemistry at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San …

The San DiegoUnion Tribune wrote an article based our latest publication in Nature Chemical Biology on Metagenomic discovery of polybrominated diphenyl ether biosynthesis by marine sponges. Read Article here