Media Coverage

In this hour-long video interview, Sui Huang discusses his paradigm-changing ideas for how we understand cancer and how they can influence how the disease is treated.

Sean Gibbons spoke with Science Focus about the link between the frequency of bowel movements and long-term health.

Infrequent pooping may be setting yourself up for medical problems down the road, and pooping too often brings its own issues. Research out of the Gibbons Lab details the “Goldilocks” zone.

Personalized pre/probiotic treatments could someday be used to support healthy sleep through stressful exam periods and menopause, a new review by Gibbons Lab scientists suggests.

Research from the Heath and Wei labs has uncovered the rapid cellular mechanisms that melanoma cells employ to develop resistance to the cancer drug vemurafenib. By closely examining the initial hours and days after drug exposure, the study reveals how cancer cells activate a backup communication system to bypass the drug’s effects, suggesting potential new combination treatment strategies to overcome this resistance.

We eat things that contain DNA – plants, fungi, animals – and some of that DNA survives passage through the gut. So the Gibbons Lab decided to measure that DNA directly to find out what people tracking their food were actually eating.

Sean Gibbons was interviewed on “The Excerpt,” the flagship podcast of USA TODAY, and discussed his research looking at poop frequency and its implication on health.

Work out of the Heath and Wei labs identified a survival mechanism that allows melanoma cells to quickly evade BRAF inhibitor treatments, and a reversible adaptation that can occur within hours of the first treatment and does not rely on reactivating the BRAF-ERK pathway.