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Apr 28, 2023, 17:11 ET Study Suggests Catalyst for Human Brain Evolution

More than a million years ago, large chunks of the human genome were rearranged—a chance event during egg or sperm formation that led to the...

Apr 18, 2023, 13:42 ET Sugar Rush: Scientists Discover Key Role of Glucose in Brain Activity

The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one quarter of the body's sugar energy, or glucose, each day. Now, researchers at Gladstone ...

Mar 08, 2023, 14:21 ET Researchers Discover How Too Much Oxygen Damages Cells and Tissues

When it comes to oxygen, you can have too much of a good thing. Breathing air that contains higher levels of oxygen than the usual 21 percent found...

Mar 07, 2023, 13:55 ET How High Altitude Changes Your Body's Metabolism

Compared to those of us who live at sea level, the 2 million people worldwide who live above 4,500 meters (or 14,764 feet) of elevation—about the...

Feb 21, 2023, 12:58 ET Impact of Key Alzheimer's Protein Depends on Type of Brain Cell in Which It Is Produced

Of all the known genetic risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, the strongest is a gene for the protein called ApoE4. People with one copy...

Jan 13, 2023, 12:27 ET Evolution of Uniquely Human DNA Was a Balancing Act, Study Concludes

Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected amount of ...

Oct 17, 2022, 12:49 ET Gladstone Data Scientist Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Data scientist and statistician Katie Pollard, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, has been elected to the...

Sep 28, 2022, 15:48 ET Gladstone Institutes Joins the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Network

Gladstone Institutes has partnered with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI), the leading network of immuno-oncology expertise in the ...

Sep 09, 2022, 12:59 ET New Antiviral Therapy May Block COVID-19 Transmission

By the time you test positive for COVID-19, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already taken up residence in your respiratory system. With each breath, you...

Sep 06, 2022, 19:43 ET Where Computation and Experimentation Collide

In order for our hearts to form correctly and keep us thriving, hundreds of genes must act together in complex networks. If part of a network...

Sep 01, 2022, 13:24 ET Revealing Molecular Switches for Heart Disease

A healthy human heart is a powerful, pliable organ that expands and contracts rapidly to pump rich, oxygenated blood through the body. But for the...

Aug 25, 2022, 11:00 ET A Cellular Engineering Breakthrough: High-Yield CRISPR Without Viral Vectors

A new variation of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system makes it easier to re-engineer massive quantities of cells for therapeutic applications. The...

Jul 27, 2022, 13:56 ET Scientists Engineer DNA "Receipt Book" To Store Cells' History

If you want to track a person's activities for a day, you could call them up every ten minutes and ask what they're doing. Easier, though, would be...

Jul 20, 2022, 11:02 ET What Makes Omicron More Infectious Than Other COVID-19 Variants

As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly around the globe earlier this year, researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC Berkeley, and the...

Jul 19, 2022, 13:56 ET BETting On COVID-19: Study Probes Role of BET Proteins in Coronavirus Infection

A while ago, some researchers had suggested that blocking a set of proteins, known as bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) proteins, might be a way to ...

Jul 06, 2022, 18:26 ET Pathway Deep in the Brain Makes It Resilient after Injury

For days, and even years, after someone suffers a stroke or traumatic brain injury, they have an increased risk of developing epilepsy. Now,...

Jul 05, 2022, 15:35 ET Finding HIV's Sweet Spot

HIV researchers have long been trying to identify the specific cells that the virus prefers to infect and hide in. They know that HIV favors a...

Jun 28, 2022, 14:58 ET The 2022 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize Awarded to Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, was announced today as the recipient of the 2022 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize by Gladstone Institutes. Izpisua...

May 18, 2022, 13:11 ET "Natural Immunity" from Omicron is Weak and Limited, Study Finds

In unvaccinated people, infection with the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 provides little long-term immunity against other variants, according to a...

May 12, 2022, 12:27 ET Throwing Drug Resistance for a Loop

Viruses in the herpesvirus family are leading causes of birth defects, blindness, and failed organ transplants worldwide. Antiviral drugs can combat...

Apr 27, 2022, 15:21 ET Zeroing in on a New Treatment for Autism and Epilepsy

Children with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, experience seizures, usually for their entire life. They are at high ...

Apr 05, 2022, 13:08 ET Determining Genetic Risk for the Forgotten

Ever since she was a young girl growing up in a rural town of West Cameroon, caring for sick animals and dissecting mice to see what their organs...

Feb 18, 2022, 12:34 ET Getting to the Heart of Complex Disease

Nearly 1 percent of all children are born with congenital heart disease—a range of potentially life-threatening problems with the structure and...

Feb 04, 2022, 13:43 ET Scientists Reveal "Rosetta Stone" of Immune Cell Function

CRISPR genome editing has served as a powerful tool for deleting or altering DNA sequences and studying the resulting effect. A recent variation,...

Jan 26, 2022, 15:15 ET Mutant Stem Cells Defy Rules of Development

Imagine you're baking a cake, but you run out of salt. Even with the missing ingredient, the batter still looks like cake batter, so you stick it in...