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Bringing Modern Science to Vitamin Biology: Isha Jain Wins NIH Transformative Research Award Leveraging modern scientific tools and techniques, Jain intends to transform our understanding of the critical roles that vitamins play in health and disease.

Leveraging modern scientific tools and techniques, @ishahjain.bsky.social intends to transform our understanding of the critical roles that vitamins play in health and disease.

Today is #StemCellAwarenessDay, a moment to highlight the science that’s transforming medicine.

Learn how scientists can reprogram ordinary skin or blood cells back in time and turn them into induced pluripotent stem cells.

The Alzheimer’s Association has selected Katerina Akassoglou as a recipient of the Zenith Fellows Award, a prize given annually to scientists making substantial contributions to Alzheimer’s research. Read more: https://bit.ly/3VKx8hF

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

"This is a prize I’ve been waiting to see,” said Alex Marson, director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology. Read more from Marson about the #NobelPrize in @nytimes.com

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Katerina Akassoglou Receives Zenith Fellows Award to Advance Alzheimer's Research Akassoglou has opened doors to understanding how the blood protein fibrin is involved in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Katerina Akassoglou has opened doors to understanding how the blood protein fibrin is involved in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Pregnancy, Lactation Shape Immune Response to COVID-19 Vaccine and Infection

Pregnancy, Lactation Shape Immune Response to COVID-19 Vaccine and Infection

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Blood Vessels and Immune Cells Drive Risk for Alzheimer’s and Stroke

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How Do Vaccines Work?

How Do Vaccines Work?

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Overworked Brain Cells May Burn Out in Parkinson’s Disease

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🎧 Transform your commute or downtime into science time.

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Stay informed on the go with discoveries that matter.

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🎥 On demand now: AI in Molecular Biology!

Hear from pioneers shaping the future of science, including:
🔹 Dr. David Baker (UW)
🔹 @barbaraengelhardt.bsky.social (@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social & @gladstoneinst.bsky.social)

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ATP-dependent remodeling of chromatin condensates reveals distinct mesoscale outcomes Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)–dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes mobilize nucleosomes, but how such mobilization affects chromatin condensation is unclear. We investigate effects of two major remod...

awesome new work by my @gladstoneinst.bsky.social and @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social colleagues incl @vram142.bsky.social on how chromatin remodelers affect mesoscale chromatin organization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Katie Pollard shares two exciting ways Gladstone is using #AI to transform how we fight disease.

Public trust in science has declined since COVID -- virologists need to unite around safety standards Creating international viral biosafety guidelines are key to clearing up confusion, regaining trust and ensuring that essential research continues.

Melanie Ott says international biosafety guidelines are key to regaining trust and ensuring that essential research continues.

Exciting news! We're honoring Rudolf Jaenisch with the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize on December 1.

Join us as we celebrate his groundbreaking work in epigenetics and stem cell biology. Don't miss his scientific lecture! 🧬🔬

Register 👉 https://bit.ly/4gNhf3z

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.

On World Heart Day, gain insights from @benoitbruneau.bsky.social, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease. His personal connection to heart health drives innovative research at Gladstone. 🫀

Rudolf Jaenisch Receives the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize - Science in Boston Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch has been honored with the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize. Awarded by Gladstone Institutes, the prize recognizes Jaenisch’s seminal role in esta...

Whitehead Institute (@whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social ) Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch has been honored with the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize.

We're still reminiscing about what a great time we had during Postdoc Appreciation Week! These photos are from a hike to Lands End and our Lawn Party that we hosted with UCSF!

New Treatment Shows Promise for Huntington's Disease A gene therapy injected into patients' brains slowed progression of the disease by 75 percent, preliminary findings reported.

In @nytimes.com, Steve Finkbeiner weighs in on a potential new treatment for Huntington's Disease.

https://nyti.ms/3VFkqAH

Shoutout to everyone who went on the walk yesterday! 🚶‍♂️🚶❤️

We had a great time at the San Francisco Heart Walk yesterday! Gladstonians got to spend some time outside together and raise money for @americanheart.bsky.social ❤️

Annual @americanheart.bsky.social Heart Walk was great as usual. Excellent turnout on a beautiful day, for a great cause @gladstoneinst.bsky.social

Beyond Viruses: Expanding the Fight Against Infectious Diseases The newly renamed Gladstone Infectious Disease Institute broadens its mission to address global health threats ranging from antibiotic resistance to infections that cause chronic diseases.

The newly renamed Gladstone Infectious Disease Institute broadens its mission to address global health threats ranging from antibiotic resistance to infections that cause chronic diseases.

#InfectiousDisease

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social In vivo genome-wide CRISPR screens in human T cells to enhance T cell therapy for solid tumor @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @gladstoneinst.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats to Marta Calvet i Mirabent, who presented her work on spatial proteomics and the HIV reservoir at the Keystone Symposia on HIV Cure South Africa.

Her talk highlighted strategies for durable remission—especially in low- and middle-income countries, where innovation is urgently needed.

#AI is everywhere—from ChatGPT to self-driving cars.

In this clip, Katie Pollard explains the hardware and software breakthroughs driving this revolution, and how tools like AlphaFold are transforming biology.

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How does the brain clear waste without the traditional lymphatic vessels found in the rest of the body? It’s a puzzle that could unlock new insights into aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Myung Jin Yang is tackling this mystery head-on.

Read more from Yang: https://bit.ly/3KgZIEM

Join us for the next Infectious Diseases & Human Health Mini-Symposium by @gladstoneinst.bsky.social and QBI: “Viral Landscapes: How to Comprehensively Monitor Evolutionary Trajectories" on 9/23.

Learn more & register: qbi.ucsf.edu/givi-mini-sy...

Overworked neurons burn out and fuel Parkinson’s disease Overactivation of dopamine neurons may directly drive their death, explaining why movement-controlling brain cells degenerate in Parkinson’s. Mice with chronically stimulated neurons showed the same s...

A discovery about the consequence of neuron overactivity could lead to new methods of treating or preventing #Parkinsons disease from Gladstone researchers.