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Gladstone in the News December 2, 2022

Time to Wear a Mask Again? Here’s What Bay Area Health Experts Say amid Rising COVID Cases

San Francisco Chronicle—Although requirements for mask wearing and social distancing have eased around the country, a third winter of the pandemic is looming. Gladstone Senior Investigator Warner Greene recommends paying attention to local trends in case numbers to decide which COVID-19 precautions to take.

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Gladstone in the News December 1, 2022

COVID Cases and Hospitalizations Are Surging Again in California. What Will It Mean This Time?

San Francisco Chronicle—In an update to a previous article, Senior Investigator Warner Greene now expects both COVID and flu to spread during the holidays and encourages people in high-risk groups to take extra precautions to avoid infection.

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Gladstone in the News November 17, 2022

‟Swarm” of Variants Is Driving up California COVID Cases. Is This the Start of the Next Surge?

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, shares his views on the likelihood of a new COVID surge this winter.

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Gladstone in the News November 15, 2022

InvisiShield Technologies Announces the Appointment of Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD as President and Chief Scientific Officer

Invisishield Technologies—Gladstone Senior Investigator Warner Greene has been appointed President and Chief Scientific Officer of Invisihield Technologies. Invisishield is focused on developing intranasal preventatives for respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.

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Gladstone in the News November 3, 2022

Medical Milestones Are Underway at San Francisco’s Gladstone Institutes

Nob Hill Gazette—Home to 30 labs and 500 researchers, Gladstone is a hub of cutting-edge research and advances toward cures for the most devastating diseases.

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Gladstone in the News October 20, 2022

Scientists Explain What We Should Expect as COVID Variants Xbb, Bq.1 Spread in Europe, Asia

ABC7 News—Senior Investigator Nadia Roan, PhD, says that a winter surge of infections from the highly transmissible new variants of SARS-CoV-2 currently emerging in the US is likely, but it remains unclear how bad it will be.

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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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Gladstone in the News October 17, 2022

National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members

National Academy of Medicine—Katie Pollard, PhD, senior investigator and director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, in recognition of her discovery of fast-evolving regions in the human genome associated with psychiatric diseases, and of her open-source software used worldwide by genome scientists.

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Gladstone in the News October 16, 2022

How Long Does Immunity from the New COVID Bivalent Boosters Last ’in the Real World’?

San Francisco Chronicle—The new bivalent COVID-19 booster shots are recommended for individuals age 5 and up who are at least two months past their last vaccine dose. Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan explains that the bivalent boosters greatly increase the levels of antibodies that can prevent the Omicron variant from infecting cells.

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Gladstone in the News September 10, 2022

When’s the Best Time to Get the New COVID Booster Shot? Here’s What Experts Say

San Francisco Chronicle—New COVID-19 booster shots targeting both the ancestral virus and omicron strains are now available. Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan weighs in on when people should get the jab, based on the timing of their last dose and whether they’ve been recently infected.

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Gladstone in the News September 1, 2022

CDC Authorizes New Omicron-Specific Booster Shots against COVID

San Francisco Chronicle—Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, says that it makes more sense to boost immunity with the newly approved bivalent vaccines targeting Omicron than with vaccines that aim at long-extinct variants of the coronavirus.

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Article August 30, 2022

Here’s What You Should Know about Monkeypox

Gladstone scientists address the basics—and dispel misconceptions—about MPXV

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Gladstone in the News August 29, 2022

A Better, Faster, More Effective Way to Edit Genes

Alex Marson, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, comments on breakthrough technology developed in his lab that will greatly facilitate the large-scale engineering of immune cells for cell-based therapies.

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Gladstone in the News August 12, 2022

What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?

Wired—Measuring which genes are on and which are off in a cell usually requires killing it, meaning any measurement is simply a snapshot in time. Seth Shipman explains how his lab has circumvented this problem by re-engineering parts of a bacterial immune system to create a record of molecular events within a cell.

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Gladstone in the News August 2, 2022

New DNA ‘Camcorders’ Can Record ‘Movies’ of a Cell’s Development Through Time

Singularity Hub—Genomics tools allow scientists to get a glimpse of what genes are turned on in a cell at one particular moment, but understanding how genes are turned on or off over time, and in what order, has been impossible. Gladstone Investigator Seth Shipman has developed a biological recorder that keeps track of these events, offering a window into how cells change over time.

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