Gladstone in the News
September 14, 2020
Wired—In an article about the potential dangers of strenuous exercise for people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, Senior Investigator Bruce Conklin, MD, is quoted for likening to "carnage" the damage the virus can inflict on heart cells. Conklin and Senior Investigator Todd McDevitt, PhD, recently reported their observations of cardiac cells from deceased COVID-19 patients or grown in the lab in BioRxiv.
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Gladstone in the News
September 10, 2020
The New Republic—Senior investigator Todd McDevitt, PhD, explains how his recent discovery that SARS-CoV-2 inflicts severe damage on heart cells could explain why some people experience symptoms of heart malfunction months after they recover from COVID-19. McDevitt stresses that COVID-19 is not just a respiratory disease, and could instead lead to permanent damage to various organs, even in young people.
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Gladstone in the News
September 10, 2020
Yahoo! News—Some individuals who survive the initial bout with COVID-19 experience heart damage weeks or months later. Gladstone Investigator Todd McDevitt explains how his recent research shows that SARS-CoV-2 can devastate heart muscle cells, which could have long-term consequences for heart function.
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Gladstone in the News
September 4, 2020
ABC7 News—As sports teams and colleges consider restarting the athletics season, Senior Investigator Todd McDevitt, PhD, and Gladstone President and Cardiologist Deepak Srivastava, MD, express concern that damage to the heart caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection could put athletes at risk for serious heart problems even if they only experienced mild COVID-19 symptoms.
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Gladstone in the News
September 3, 2020
STAT—Senior Investigators Todd McDevitt, PhD, and Bruce Conklin, MD, comment on their recent findings of severe damage in cardiac cells exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in the lab and in the heart cells of deceased COVID-19 patients. They also explain why they felt the need to share these findings rapidly with the scientific community via the preprint publishing platform bioRxiv.
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September 3, 2020
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Gladstone in the News
August 28, 2020
Newsweek—In an article about researchers facing legal pursuits for practicing open science during an avian flu epidemic, Gladstone Institute of Virology Director Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, is quoted praising the spirit of collaboration and data-sharing that pervades current research on COVID-19.
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Gladstone in the News
August 27, 2020
Inverse—A new study from researchers at Yale University showed that males have a less robust T cell response to the coronavirus than females do. Gladstone virologist Warner Greene comments that this finding may in part explain why men are more likely to die from COVID-19 than women, and that it suggests men and women may benefit from different treatments.
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Gladstone in the News
August 25, 2020
Innovative Genomics Institute—In a biographical interview, Gladstone Investigator Bruce Conklin describes how he was inspired to pursue basic research by a patient he encountered in medical school, and shares his love of history and animal watching.
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August 23, 2020
San Francisco Business Times—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, bemoans the disagreements among federal health leaders and the lack of coordinated federal response to the pandemic, while also expressing cautious confidence in the therapeutic value of convalescent plasma and of other immune-based therapies.
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Gladstone in the News
August 23, 2020
San Francisco Chronicle—Gladstone scientist Nadia Roan explains how her recent discoveries provide hope that it may be possible to harness the power of T cells to kill coronavirus and develop an effective vaccine.
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