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Gladstone in the News August 23, 2020

T Cells, the Body’s Antiviral Snipers, Look Promising for a Coronavirus Vaccine

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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Gladstone in the News August 15, 2020

How Will the Bay Area Distribute a Possible Coronavirus Vaccine?

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, and a number of Bay Area experts explain the complexities of manufacturing and delivering vaccines against the coronavirus efficiently and safely, and stress the necessity for the scientific and health authorities to build public trust about these vaccines.

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Gladstone in the News August 10, 2020

Facebook Live: Warner Greene, MD, PhD—An Infectious Diseases Expert on the "Open Questions" of COVID-19 Immunity

MedPage Today—Gladstone Senior Investigator Warner Greene spoke to MedPage Today about how the human immune system reacts to SARS-CoV-2, and the prospects for a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Article August 7, 2020

Let’s Clear up Some Confusion about COVID-19

Scientists clarify three common coronavirus misconceptions

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Gladstone in the News August 7, 2020

Why the Time to Get Back COVID-19 Test Results in Bay Area Ranges from 2 Weeks to 2 Days

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, bemoans the increasing delays in testing for coronavirus infection and the lost opportunity for contact tracing.

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Article August 6, 2020

We’re in Trouble. And Masking Is Our Way Out.

We must come together, setting politics aside, if we want to beat the COVID-19 pandemic

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Gladstone in the News August 4, 2020

Class during COVID: Tips for Safety and Sanitation

NBCBoston—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, offers tips to help parents and children adopt safe practices and prevent the spread of the coronavirus when school resumes.

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Gladstone in the News August 3, 2020

Protein Interactions Point the Way to Drugs against COVID-19

Medium—Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan, PhD, explains his group's recent discovery of the cellular processes the coronavirus commandeers to grow and propagate and how this information can be harnessed for drug development.

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Gladstone in the News August 2, 2020

“We’re Missing Huge Amounts of Data.” Why We Still Can’t Track the Spread of COVID-19 across the Bay Area

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, comments on the lack of data impeding efforts to understand the spread of the coronavirus in California, and the necessity to wear masks.

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Gladstone in the News July 31, 2020

Inside SF’s New Biosafety Lab, Where Scientists Wrangle Live Coronavirus

KQED—Mauricio Montano, director of Gladstone's new BSL-3 lab, and Melanie Ott, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, explain how scientists will use the high-level biosafety lab for COVID-19 research, and how they must gear up before getting in the door.

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Gladstone in the News July 23, 2020

Face Masks Really Do Matter. The Scientific Evidence Is Growing.

The Wall Street Journal—Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology, stresses wearing a mask as one of the most important things people can do right now to bring the spread of the coronavirus under control.

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Gladstone in the News July 21, 2020

Inhaled Treatment Reduces Severe COVID-19 Risk by 79 Percent

Labiotech.eu—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, comments on the use of interferons as therapeutic intervention in the early stages of COVID-19.

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Article July 21, 2020

Crunching the Numbers to Determine Patient Outcomes

With a tool capable of taking large sets of data and distilling it into patterns, researchers at Gladstone hope to better predict COVID-19 patient outcomes and improve patient care.

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Gladstone in the News July 20, 2020

Those Fleeting, Pesky Coronavirus Antibodies Are Going to Make Developing a Vaccine Awfully Difficult

KNX 1070—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, comments on the recent findings that antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19, disappear quickly from people's blood after they recover from infection, and discusses the implications for vaccine development.

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Gladstone in the News July 20, 2020

Revealing the Genetic Signature of Neurodegenerative Disease

Drug Target Review—Senior Investigator Katerina Akassoglou, PhD, explains her team’s recent discovery of the immune cells in the brain that promote neurodegeneration in diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease.

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