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A drug candidate found by Gladstone researchers could help prevent tens of thousands of heart surgeries every year
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USA Today—California Proposition 14 put funding for the Stem Cell Research Institute on the ballot this year. Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava, MD, explains how previous funding for stem cell research in California has helped bring the field to a point where stem cell–based therapies are now possible.
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ABC News—In 2019, the Trump administration suspended federal funding for research involving fetal tissue. Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava explains that if the funding ban had been in place over the last few decades, many important drugs—including treatments for COVID-19—would not have been developed.
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abc News—Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava, MD, comments on the fact that the experimental treatments President Trump received for COVID-19 were tested on cells that were derived from fetal tissue decades ago, and expresses concern that the Trump administration's current ban on the use of fetal tissue for research could slow efforts to curb the pandemic.
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The New York Times—The experimental drugs used to treat President Trump for COVID-19 were developed with the help of a human cell line derived from a fetus aborted decades ago. Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava, MD, and Senior Investigator Warner Greene, MD, PhD, comment on the ethics of accepting this treatment while also banning research using newly derived fetal cells, in the process thwarting the development of life-saving treatments for other conditions.
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San Francisco Business Times—As Scribe Therapeutics Inc., the latest company founded by Senior Investigator Jennifer Doudna, PhD, announced that it landed a deal with Biogen Inc., Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava, MD, commented on the importance of CRISPR-based biotech companies for medicine and agriculture and on Doudna’s drive as a scientist.
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ABC7 News—As sports teams and colleges consider restarting the athletics season, Senior Investigator Todd McDevitt, PhD, and Gladstone President and Cardiologist Deepak Srivastava, MD, express concern that damage to the heart caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection could put athletes at risk for serious heart problems even if they only experienced mild COVID-19 symptoms.
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The New York Times—Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava, MD, and Senior Investigator Jennifer Doudna, PhD, comment on a recent report of the successful use of novel CRISPR technology to lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels in monkeys.
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This generous gift will support Gladstone scientists who are pivoting their ongoing work to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Stem Cell Podcast—Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava describes his work using human induced pluripotent stem cells to investigate the gene networks that dictate cell fate decisions, and how this research could lead to therapeutics for congenital heart disease and heart failure. He also describes the importance of stem cell research in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gladstone researchers are collaborating to solve cardiovascular diseases using new technologies.
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Why should athletes and sports fans have all the fun in March?
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STAT—Two Gladstone studies have been selected to participate in STAT Madness—a March Madness-style competition for scientific papers. Voting begins March 2, 2020.
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Aging is the single greatest risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other brain diseases.
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From penicillin to organ transplants, so many important discoveries have dramatically changed healthcare and medicine over the past decades. But what’s really behind all this progress?
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