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Article July 17, 2026

Gladstone Scientists Are Awarded $2 Million to Map How HIV Affects the Immune System

By uniting the power of single-cell sequencing, organoids, and artificial intelligence, scientists are entering a new era of HIV research.

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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 March 11, 2024

Gladstone to Expand Stem Cell Research Capabilities with Multi-Million Dollar Regenerative Medicine Grant

Funds from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will allow Gladstone to bolster its disease-modeling technologies, add robust CRISPR screening capabilities, and educate young researchers on the latest in stem cell science.

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Article April 6, 2022

Mini-Livers on a Chip

A new platform designed by Gladstone scientists for studying how the immune system responds to hepatitis C virus could speed the hunt for a vaccine

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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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Article December 2, 2021

It Takes Guts to Make a Heart

Gladstone scientists create novel organoids that open new doors for understanding crosstalk between tissues during human development

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Article June 24, 2020

Lung Organoids: Mini-Models for Mega Answers

Screening potential COVID-19 drug therapies through lung organoids promises a faster pipeline to approved treatments.

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Article May 1, 2020

Protecting the Heart from COVID-19

Cardiac effects of COVID-19 are starting to show in patients and researchers are ready to fight it.

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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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Gladstone in the News January 14, 2020

Stem Cell Patterning by Automated Design

The Stem Cell Podcast—Gladstone Senior Investigator Todd McDevitt describes his work using stem cells to understand how tissues grow and organize themselves, and how these efforts lay the groundwork for regenerative medicine therapies.

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Article November 20, 2019

Machine, Meet Stem Cells

Gladstone researchers used a machine-learning approach to discover new ways of controlling the spatial organization of induced pluripotent stem cells.

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Article November 6, 2019

Mini-Organs and Microtissues Open New Dimensions for Discovery

These tiny versions of the heart, brain, intestine, lungs, and other organs are transforming how we research human disease and development at Gladstone and beyond.

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