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Video November 3, 2025

Science in Seconds | Researchers Pinpoint Key Gene Behind Heart Defects in Down Syndrome

In this video, Gladstone scientists share how they used stem cells, gene editing, and AI to identify a gene driving heart defects in Down syndrome—and how reducing its levels in mice restored normal heart development, offering hope for future treatments

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Video October 15, 2025

Science in Seconds | The Thinking Microscope: Research Powered by an AI Brain

In this video, Steve Finkbeiner and Jeremy Linsley showcase Gladstone’s groundbreaking “thinking microscope”—an AI-powered system that can design, conduct, and analyze experiments autonomously to uncover new insights into diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS.

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Article May 22, 2025

From Chaos to Clarity: New Tool Finds Connections in Complex Cell Data

A powerful computation tool integrates different forms of biological data to reveal how cell types are related across tissues, experiments, and species—information that’s crucial for understanding disease.

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Article May 19, 2025

Meet Gladstone: Sarah Nyquist

Sarah Nyquist is a bioinformatics fellow, researching human mammary gland milk production to address the gap in understanding how disease, lifestyle, and genetics impact breast milk.

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Article April 24, 2025

5 Ways Gladstone Is Harnessing DNA to Overcome Disease

For National DNA Day, discover how Gladstone scientists are utilizing the power of DNA to deepen our understanding of disease.

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Article September 4, 2024

Gladstone’s Catherine Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha Named an ‘Emerging Leader’ by National Academy of Medicine

Tcheandjieu is one of 10 scholars nationwide selected as an emerging leader who's shaping the future of health and medicine.

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Article May 24, 2024

Scientists Leverage Machine Learning to Decode Gene Regulation in the Developing Human Brain

A team of researchers from Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco combined high-throughput experiments and machine learning to analyze more than 100,000 sequences in human brain cells.

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Article May 24, 2024

Visionary Philanthropists Establish Center to Harness Computational Biology for Cancer Research

A search for the brightest minds in cancer and AI led Hope and Sanjit Biswas to give in their own backyard.

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Article April 18, 2024

Computational Biology Pioneer Katie Pollard Elected as AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies, has elected Gladstone Senior Investigator Katie Pollard, PhD, into its new class of AAAS Fellows, a lifetime honor within the scientific community.

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Gladstone in the News March 12, 2024

Biswas Family Foundation, Milken Institute Award $14M in Computational Biology Grants

GenomeWeb—The Biswas Family Foundation and the Milken Institute have awarded nearly $14 million in grants to researchers developing artificial intelligence and other computational tools for clinical applications. The money will go to five groups, including one from the Gladstone Institutes that is developing machine-learning models to personalize colorectal and skin cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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Article March 12, 2024

$5 Million Grant Bets on Computational Biology, AI to Change the Future of Cancer

The Biswas Family Foundation and Milken Institute announce funding to establish a center for computational cancer biology at Gladstone Institutes, led by Senior Investigator Katie Pollard.

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Article March 11, 2024

Barbara Engelhardt Elected Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology

The ISCB Fellows program is a prestigious recognition within the field of computational biology honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to the discipline. These distinguished scientists and professionals have demonstrated exceptional leadership, research, and service, advancing the frontiers of computational biology and bioinformatics.

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Gladstone in the News March 10, 2024

A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive

New York Times—Several new artificial intelligence-powered programs are setting their sights on the fundamentals of biology. They are not simply tidying up the information that biologists are collecting. They are making discoveries about how genes work and how cells develop. Gladstone Assistant Investigator Christina Theodoris shares her journey of creating the deep learning model GeneFormer.

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Article November 9, 2023

New Tool Unsnarls DNA-Winding Mystery, with Likely Implications for Many Diseases

A novel method developed by Gladstone researchers is already answering longstanding questions about basic DNA dynamics—and may one day lead to new ways of treating cancer and other conditions

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Article October 16, 2023

Where Biology and Open-Source Coding Converge

Software developers and their mentors at Gladstone help advance research through Google Summer of Code

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