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Gladstone in the News September 26, 2025

New Treatment Shows Promise for Huntington’s Disease

The New York Times—Steve Finkbeiner, director of the Center for Systems and Therapeutics at Gladstone, notes that a new gene therapy shows promise for patients affected by Huntington’s disease, but untreated brain regions may still experience neurodegeneration. (Subscription required.)

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Gladstone in the News July 28, 2025

Gladstone Institutes Develops AI-Powered Thinking Microscope

ABC7 News—Steve Finkbeiner, director of the Center for Systems and Therapeutics at Gladstone, describes the revolutionary thinking microscope that his team developed to help identify better treatments for diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS.

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Gladstone in the News October 19, 2022

Hereditary Disease Foundation Announces 2022 Prize Winners for Leadership in Huntington’s Disease Research

Global News Wire—Gladstone Investigator Steve Finkbeiner was awarded the 2022 Leslie Gehry Prize for Innovation in Science. The award recognizes his advancements in developing novel technologies, such as robotic microscopy and deep learning pipelines, that can be used to understand and develop treatments for Huntington’s disease.

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Article December 8, 2021

New Tech Assigns More Accurate “Time of Death” to Cells

The method lets researchers more easily study factors that can lead to cell death, in conditions including neurodegenerative diseases

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Article April 13, 2021

World’s Largest Public ALS Data Portal Launched

Steve Finkbeiner is leading key components of this unprecedented resource to boost ALS research.

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Video May 15, 2020

The Thinking Microscope: Reimagining Science through the Lens of AI and Robotics

Steve Finkbeiner explains how his lab uses machine learning and robotics to find answers to some of the world's most devastating diseases.

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Article April 22, 2020

Data-Driven Discovery

Many Gladstone researchers rely on computational approaches, machine learning, and innovative software to make biomedical discoveries.

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Article November 19, 2019

Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease-like Memory Loss before It Strikes

New study shows how patterns in brain activity can be an early predictor of Alzheimer’s symptoms.

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Article April 15, 2019

Meet Gladstone: David Cahill

A Seattle native, David grew up exploring the great wild places in this country and beyond. He explains the role of a lab manager at Gladstone, as well as his love of wilderness travel, for which knowing how to pack efficiently is a useful skill.
 

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Article April 8, 2018

Deep Learning: A Superhuman Way to Look at Cells

Gladstone and Google AI collaborate to uncover the tip of an iceberg that could transform biomedical science
 

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Article January 22, 2018

Gladstone Launches Three New Research Centers

These centers focus on thematic areas that impact numerous scientific disciplines

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Article October 17, 2016

Strain-Level Profiling Yields New Insights into Mother-Infant Microbiomes

Direct microbial sequencing of environmental samples, such as from ocean water, hospital surfaces, and the human gut, have illuminated the vast number of microbes present in our world.

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Article March 3, 2015

Mapping the Gut Microbiome to Better Understand Its Role in Obesity

Katherine Pollard uses innovative statistical analyses to shed new light on the connection between gut bacteria, metabolism, and BMI.

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Article November 10, 2013

Fast-Mutating DNA Sequences Shape Early Development; Guided Evolution of Uniquely Human Traits

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—What does it mean to be human? According to scientists the key lies, ultimately, in the billions of lines of genetic code that comprise the human genome. The problem, however, has been deciphering that code.

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Article June 12, 2012

Consortium of Scientists Map the Human Body’s Bacterial Ecosystem

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes today are announcing their role in an unprecedented collaboration organized by the National Institutes of Health, which used groundbreaking methods to vastly improve our understanding of bacteria that reside in and on the human body.

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