MarinScope
Marin producer behind hit single
February 22, 2012 - Local music producer Scott Mathews helped the pop group Blush make it to #1 on the Billboard dance charts with their smash hit, Dance On. Blush's only live performance in the Bay Area will be on May 2, at the Gladstone Gala at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Chronicle
Father, son develop drug to fight brain diseases
February 20, 2012 - The relationship is a rare one in science: a father and son, one a highly credentialed chemist, the other an up-and-coming biologist, working together on a new drug that, if it works, could be among the first to treat terrible brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.
The San Francisco Chronicle
HIV drug tenofovir increases risk of kidney damage
February 18, 2012 - Patients who take one of the most widely prescribed drugs to treat HIV infection increase their risk of kidney damage by up to 34 percent every year they take the medication, according to a study of more than 10,000 HIV-positive veterans.
The San Francisco Chronicle
Stem cells found to help heart heal after attack
February 15, 2012 - Stem cells grown from patients' own cardiac tissue can heal damage once thought to be permanent after a heart attack, according to a study that suggests the experimental approach may one day help stave off heart failure.
TIME
Stem Cells Heal Scar Damage After Heart Attack
February 14, 2012 - For the first time, researchers have used stem cells from a patient's own heart to repair the damage to the muscle that occurs during heart attack.
Bloomberg
Scarred Hearts Can Be Mended With Novel Stem Cell Therapy, Study Finds
February 13, 2012 - Stem cells grown from patients' own cardiac tissue can heal damage once thought to be permanent after a heart attack, according to a study that suggests the experimental approach may one day help stave off heart failure.
WJTX Jacksonville
Skin cells as stem cells
February 14, 2012 - Dr. Deepak Srivastava and Dr. Sheng Ding are two of the many minds at Gladstone Institute, using not adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells, but your own skin cells to repair bodies from the inside out
San Francisco Business Times
One-on-One with the Gladstone Institutes' Michael Penn
February 7, 2012 - Penn, who spent the past eight years as a product and business development manager at biotech powerhouse Genentech Inc. in South San Francisco, was hired last month as the first vice president for strategy at the Gladstone Institutes.
Qnotes
FDA to consider HIV prevention pills
February 4, 2012 - Gladstone Investigator Robert Grant, MD, MPH is quoted in this article about Gilead's FDA application to allow the drug Truvada to be prescribed to prevent HIV-1 infection.
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Shinya Yamanaka at Gladstone
January 2012 - A glimpse into Shinya Yamanaka's lab and life at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco, California. [Japanese Language Television] |
Medscape Medical News
Stem Cell Therapy Promising in Progressive MS
January 31, 2012 - Katerina Akassoglou, PhD, from the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease comments on a finding which suggests that stem cells may have neuroprotective effects in multiple sclerosis. (Subscription Required)
Stem Cell Cite
Medicine's next big thing
January 27, 2012 - Gladstone Institutes scientists Deepak Srivastava, MD, and Sheng Ding, PhD, explain how stem cells from a patient's own skin cells may be used in the future to prevent, treat and cure disease.
Spire Healthcare
Feature: What foods really help stave of heart disease?
January 27, 2012 - The Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco recently found that a genetic switch in an unborn baby could be the key to whether they will develop heart disease in later life.
KTVB News
Medicine's next big thing could just be skin deep
January 27, 2012 - Researchers at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco aren't using embryonic stems cells, or even adult stem cells. Their stem cells come from skin.
Digital Journal
Parkinson's disease: When proteins go rogue
January 26, 2012 - Gladstone scientists have identified a protein that aggravates the symptoms of Parkinson's disease when dopamine levels drop.
bernama.com
US Scientists Identify Protein Contributing To Symptoms Of Parkinson's Disease
January 26, 2012 - Scientists at the San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes have identified a protein that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
The Philippine Star
U.S. scientists identify cause of Parkinson's disease
January 26, 2012 - Scientists at the San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes have identified a protein that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
ivanhoe.com
Protein Linked to Parkinson's Disease
January 26, 2012 - Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a protein, called RGS4, that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
U.S. News & World Report
Protein That Controls Movement Does the Opposite in Parkinson's
January 25, 2012 - Gladstone researchers have identified a protein that worsens symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Their finding could eventually lead to new treatments for the neurodegenerative disease.
Newsday
Protein That Controls Movement Does the Opposite in Parkinson's
January 25, 2012 - Researchers who identified a protein that worsens symptoms of Parkinson's disease say their finding could eventually lead to new treatments for the neurodegenerative disease.
MSN Health
Protein That Controls Movement Does the Opposite in Parkinson's
January 25, 2012 - Gladstone investigator Anatol Kreitzer says the discovery that RGS4 may play a role in the development of Parkinson's symptoms helps to lay the groundwork for a new therapeutic strategy — independent of dopamine.
HealthCanal.com
Gladstone Scientists Identify Protein that Contributes to Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
January 25, 2012 - Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a protein that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinson's disease — a discovery that could one day lead to new treatments for people who suffer from this devastating neurodegenerative illness.
Health.com
Protein That Controls Movement Does the Opposite in Parkinson's
January 25, 2012 - Researchers who identified a protein that worsens symptoms of Parkinson's disease say their finding could eventually lead to new treatments for the neurodegenerative disease.
The Scientist
Eye Trials Give Hope for Stem Cells
January 24, 2012 - Preliminary data from human embryonic stem cell trials for two degenerative eye disorders are promising, but challenges remain for more complex tissues.
Zee News
Genetic switch key to heart's health discovered
January 24, 2012 - Scientists from the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco found that a specific gene in mice which fails to turn off at the right time in an embryo`s development could mean illness later in life.
Spire Healthcare
Congenital heart disease ‘linked with genetic mechanism’
January 24, 2012 - Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have found a genetic mechanism linked directly to congenital heart disease.
BelleNews
Genes switch on and off can influence serious heart conditions
January 23, 2012 - Scientists from the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco focused on two genes, and their role in cardiomyopathy, a enlarging and weakening of the heart muscle which is a feature in life-threatening heart defects in children and adults.
KABC-TV Los Angeles
UCLA doctors ‘reprogram’ adult skin cells
January 23, 2012 - Dr. Srivastava and Dr. Sheng Ding are two of the many minds at Gladstone Institute who are using not adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells, but your own skin cells to repair bodies from the inside out.
BBC
Gene switch ‘key to heart health’
January 22, 2012 - Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Cadiovascular Disease in San Francisco may be closer to understanding how genes can influence serious heart conditions, says a Nature Genetics report.
perspicacious.co.uk
Gene switch ‘key to heart health’
January 22, 2012 - Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Cadiovascular Disease in San Francisco may be closer to understanding how genes can influence serious heart conditions, says a Nature Genetics report.
MedicalXpress
Researchers find genetic mechanism linked to congenital heart disease
January 22, 2012 - In a paper being published online today in Nature Genetics, researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Senior Investigator Benoit Bruneau describe the roles that two genes play in embryonic heart development.
WISN-TV Milwaukee, WI
Skins Cells Being Used To Repair Human Bodies
January 18, 2012 - Gladstone Institutes scientists Deepak Srivastava, MD, and Sheng Ding, PhD, explain how stem cells from a patient's own skin cells may be used in the future to prevent, treat and cure disease.
KFSN-TV Fresno, CA
Skin cells as stem cells - medicine's next big thing
January 17, 2012 - Gladstone Institutes scientists Deepak Srivastava, MD, and Sheng Ding, PhD, explain how stem cells from a patient’s own skin cells may be used in the future to prevent, treat and cure disease.
WABC-TV New York, NY
Skin cells as stem cells
January 16, 2012 - Gladstone Institutes scientists Deepak Srivastava, MD, and Sheng Ding, PhD, explain how stem cells from a patient’s own skin cells may be used in the future to prevent, treat and cure disease.
