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Gladstone in the News January 20, 2021

The Coronavirus Is Changing Faster Than Scientists Thought. Can Vaccines Still Stamp It Out?

San Francisco Chronicle—New coronavirus variants are emerging around the world, including in the Bay Area. Melanie Ott, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, explains that if the vaccine rollout isn’t fast enough, viral variants that can evade the vaccine may become prevalent, rendering the vaccine partially ineffective.

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Article January 19, 2021

Meet Gladstone: Courtney Dickerson

Meet Gladstone’s Project Coordinator Courtney Dickerson, who has spent her shelter in place perfecting gluten-free baking and catching up on science fiction and horror tv shows and movies.

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Gladstone in the News January 15, 2021

Bay Area Researchers Develop New Rapid COVID-19 Test That Uses Smartphone Camera

ABC7 News—Gladstone Institute of Virology Director Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, and Graduate Student Parinaz Fozouni comment on the COVID-19 detection test they recently developed with Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, PhD, and UC Berkeley Professor Dan Fletcher, PhD, using CRISPR and smartphone technology.

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Gladstone in the News December 18, 2020

Does It Matter Which COVID-19 Vaccine You Get?

FiveThirtyEight—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, is among several experts explaining the various types of COVID-19 vaccines about to be deployed to fight the pandemic.

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Article December 17, 2020

National Collaborative Issues Call to Action against COVID-19

Melanie Ott helped shape recommendations for a unified plan to end the pandemic

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Article December 16, 2020

Isha Jain Joins Gladstone Institutes

A scientist since childhood, Jain will now lead a lab at Gladstone to study the balance of oxygen levels in the human body

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Article December 15, 2020

A 10-Point Strategy to Address Alzheimer’s Disease in California

An expert from Gladstone Institutes helps shape the new recommendations

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Article December 14, 2020

An Unexpected Role for the Brain’s Immune Cells

The cells constantly survey the brain to prevent spontaneous seizures, Gladstone scientists discover

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Article December 14, 2020

Study Reveals Networks of Genes Involved in Congenital Heart Disease

The findings could point toward new ways to prevent or treat one of the most common birth defects

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Gladstone in the News December 13, 2020

Can CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Testing Using Smartphones Slow the Pandemic?

Forbes—In an article about the need for rapid testing to monitor and curb the COVID-19 pandemic, Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, explains the advantages of the CRISPR- and smartphone-based detection platform she developed with Senior Investigator and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, PhD, and UC Berkeley Professor Dan Fletcher, PhD.

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Gladstone in the News December 11, 2020

COVID Test May Be as Close as Your Smartphone, Say UC, Gladstone Researchers

San Francisco Business Times—Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, discusses the rapid, smartphone-based Coronavirus detection assay her group recently described in the scientific publication Cell. The assay was developed by Graduate Student Parinaz Fozouni, in collaboration with the labs of Senior Scientist and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, PhD, and of UC Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher, PhD.

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Article December 10, 2020

A Potential Therapy for One of the Leading Causes of Heart Disease

A drug candidate found by Gladstone researchers could help prevent tens of thousands of heart surgeries every year

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Article December 10, 2020

A Genetic Shortcut to Help Visualize Proteins at Work

A team of Gladstone and UCSF scientists used a large-scale genetic approach to map the structure of protein complexes in live cells

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Article December 9, 2020

2020 Year in Review

See what Gladstonians were up to in 2020

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Article December 8, 2020

Researchers Identify Critical Molecules that Coronaviruses Hijack to Infect Human Cells

The new study points toward ways to treat not only COVID-19, but future coronaviruses that might emerge

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