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Heart-to-Heart Connection: Exploratorium and Gladstone Bring a Breakthrough Science Exhibit to Life

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Article February 8, 2024

Heart-to-Heart Connection: Exploratorium and Gladstone Bring a Breakthrough Science Exhibit to Life

At San Francisco’s Exploratorium, visitors sync their heartbeat with living heart cells; the first-of-its-kind exhibit was created through the museum’s long-running partnership with scientists at Gladstone Institutes.

News Release Stem Cells/iPSCs Conklin Lab Yamanaka Lab Cardiovascular Disease Research (Publication)

Disease in a Dish: What Mini-Hearts and Other Organs Reveal about Long COVID

Gladstone in the News March 9, 2022

Disease in a Dish: What Mini-Hearts and Other Organs Reveal about Long COVID

San Jose Mercury News—Senior Investigators Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, and Bruce Conklin, MD, recount how they used miniature balls of beating heart cells called organoids to study the effects of COVID-19 on the heart. The heart cells were derived from a person's skin cells, thanks to technology pioneered by Senior Investigator and Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD.

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COVID’s Cardiac Connection

Gladstone in the News November 3, 2021

COVID’s Cardiac Connection

Scientific American—There is increasing evidence that some people who recover from COVID-19 suffer from lingering heart problems, a phenomenon known as post-COVID-19 cardiac syndrome. Senior Investigator Bruce Conklin explains that it’s important to investigate the long-term consequences of infection, and describes his team’s work showing that infecting heart cells with SARS-CoV-2 can result in dramatic structural damage.

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Some Covid-19 Patients Show Signs of Heart Damage Months Later

Gladstone in the News September 22, 2020

Some Covid-19 Patients Show Signs of Heart Damage Months Later

The Wall Street Journal—Senior Investigator Todd McDevitt, PHD, comments on the damage SARS-CoV-2 can inflict on heart cells, which he and Senior Investigator Bruce Conklin, MD, recently reported in an article deposited on bioRxiv.

Gladstone Experts COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Data Science and Biotechnology Conklin Lab McDevitt Lab

If You’ve Just Had COVID, Exercise Might Not Be Good for You

Gladstone in the News September 14, 2020

If You’ve Just Had COVID, Exercise Might Not Be Good for You

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.

Gladstone Experts COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Data Science and Biotechnology Conklin Lab McDevitt Lab

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