Media Coverage

Institute for Systems Biology and NED Biosystems Will Collaborate to Reverse Cancer Onset

ISB and NED Biosystems will collaborate on an intriguing clinical trial that aims to use a cocktail of several marketed medications at low doses to reverse cancer’s onset or regrowth. ISB Co-founder Lee Hood and NED Biosystems founder and CEO Rebecca Lambert announced the deal.

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Inside Precision Medicine
Institute for Systems Biology and NED Biosystems Will Collaborate to Reverse Cancer Onset

Is This Microbiome Startup Selling a Wellness Fantasy?

Sean Gibbons was quoted in this Bloomberg Businessweek story examining Viome and the often questionable microbiome-wellness startup space.

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Bloomberg Businessweek
Is This Microbiome Startup Selling a Wellness Fantasy?

T Cell Discovery Unlocks Potential for Crafting Tailored Immune Responses

This story published by Inside Precision Medicine covers ISB research showing that the different disease-fighting functions of distinct T cells are determined by the genetically encoded T-cell receptor (TCR) sequence that are unique to those cells. The findings are promising for developing custom immune responses to specific antigens.

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Inside Precision Medicine
T Cell Discovery Unlocks Potential for Crafting Tailored Immune Responses

Adding lifestyle coaching to treatment decreases cognitive decline in early Alzheimer’s

McKnights Senior Living published a news story detailing results from the ISB-led Coaching for Cognition in Alzheimer’s (COCOA) trial showing that supplementing the standard of care for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease with lifestyle coaching leads to less cognitive decline.

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McKnights Senior Living
Adding lifestyle coaching to treatment decreases cognitive decline in early Alzheimer’s

Computer Model Identifies Which Species Are Important in a Healthy Microbiome

ISB researchers collaborated on an international research project that found a way to determine which species in the gut are important and how they interact to create a healthy microbiome.

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Technology Networks
Computer Model Identifies Which Species Are Important in a Healthy Microbiome

A systems biology perspective on the gut microbiome

ISB Associate Professor Dr. Sean Gibbons was a guest on the ISAPP Science, Microbes & Health podcast. In this episode, Gibbons talked about exploring and manipulating the complex ecology of the microbiome with the aim of engineering outputs of this system, as well as the utility of AI in microbiome science and how the microbiome will play a role in personalized medicine in the future, including in the delivery of probiotics and prebiotics.

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ISAPP
A systems biology perspective on the gut microbiome

Breakthrough Study: Alzheimer’s Patients Benefit From Lifestyle Coaching, Not Drugs

The ISB-led prospective randomized controlled trial called COCOA – Coaching for Cognition in Alzheimer’s – showed that supplementing personalized coaching along with the standard of treatment leads to less cognitive decline in early-stage Alzheimer’s patients than standard of care alone.

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Healthcare Business Today
Breakthrough Study: Alzheimer’s Patients Benefit From Lifestyle Coaching, Not Drugs

Long COVID: An explainer and research roundup

The Journalist’s Resource featured work by ISB researchers showing four predictive factors of long COVID. The Journalist’s Resource was created by Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy as an open-access online publication for journalists.

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The Journalist’s Resource
Long COVID: An explainer and research roundup
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