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Article May 22, 2025

From Chaos to Clarity: New Tool Finds Connections in Complex Cell Data

A powerful computation tool integrates different forms of biological data to reveal how cell types are related across tissues, experiments, and species—information that’s crucial for understanding disease.

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Article April 24, 2025

5 Ways Gladstone Is Harnessing DNA to Overcome Disease

For National DNA Day, discover how Gladstone scientists are utilizing the power of DNA to deepen our understanding of disease.

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Article April 2, 2025

Structure Matters: Scientists Create New Guide to Compare DNA Maps

Gladstone scientists Katie Pollard and Ketrin Gjoni answer questions about their latest study, which appears in the journal Nature Methods.

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Article February 25, 2025

Matters of the Heart: A Conversation with Gladstone’s Benoit Bruneau

Bruneau, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, shares exciting recent advances in heart research and talks about the impact of predictive AI.

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Gladstone in the News January 27, 2025

Four Lessons COVID Taught Us About the Immune System

Nature—Amid pandemic upheaval, researchers—including Gladstone Investigator Nadia Roan—have gained fundamental insights about how the body fends off infections.

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Gladstone in the News January 23, 2025

25 Years of the UCSC Genome Browser

UC Santa Cruz News—To mark the 25th anniversary of the Genome Browser, one of the most widely used resources for genomics worldwide, this article spotlights Gladstone’s Katie Pollard, who worked on the Browser over the course of its history.

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Gladstone in the News December 19, 2024

On the Origin of Diseases

UCSF Magazine—Insights from human evolution—including Gladstone scientist Katie Pollard’s discovery of the fast-evolving parts of our genome—could change how we understand and treat illness.

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Article December 6, 2024

Five Gladstone Scientists Ranked Among Most Highly Cited Researchers in the World

The featured scientists include global leaders in gene editing, systems biology, AI, and immunology.

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Gladstone in the News October 11, 2024

Most Influential Women: Katie Pollard

San Francisco Business Times—Katie Pollard, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, is selected as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business 2024 for her contributions as a thought leader driving innovation in AI and her mentorship of future biomedical scientists.

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Gladstone in the News July 19, 2024

San Francisco Scientists Using AI in Hopes to Better Treat Cancer

ABC7 News—Gladstone's president Deepak Srivastava, and Katie Pollard, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, explain how scientists are using artificial intelligence to pinpoint the best ways to treat cancer.

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Article May 29, 2024

CRISPR-Based Mapping Uncovers ‘Switches’ for Immune Genes Central to Health

A new study in Nature Genetics expands our understanding of immune regulation and autoimmunity—with findings that could also be used in the development of cancer immunotherapies.

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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 May 24, 2024

Visionary Philanthropists Establish Center to Harness Computational Biology for Cancer Research

A search for the brightest minds in cancer and AI led Hope and Sanjit Biswas to give in their own backyard.

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Article April 18, 2024

Computational Biology Pioneer Katie Pollard Elected as AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies, has elected Gladstone Senior Investigator Katie Pollard, PhD, into its new class of AAAS Fellows, a lifetime honor within the scientific community.

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Gladstone in the News March 12, 2024

Biswas Family Foundation, Milken Institute Award $14M in Computational Biology Grants

GenomeWeb—The Biswas Family Foundation and the Milken Institute have awarded nearly $14 million in grants to researchers developing artificial intelligence and other computational tools for clinical applications. The money will go to five groups, including one from the Gladstone Institutes that is developing machine-learning models to personalize colorectal and skin cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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