Media Coverage

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.

The Wei and Heath labs and collaborators from MIT have uncovered a stealth survival strategy that melanoma cells use to evade targeted therapy, offering a promising new approach to improving treatment outcomes.

Sui Huang challenges the prevailing view of cancer as purely genetic. Huang and colleagues argue that many cancers lack identifiable driver mutations, suggesting non-genetic factors and disrupted gene regulatory networks may play crucial roles in cancer development.

Christian Diener, Sean Gibbons and colleagues developed a method to detect and measure food-derived DNA in human stool samples – an approach that can be used to estimate a person’s dietary intake.

Sean Gibbons was interviewed for a news story on the lack of microbial diversity onboard the International Space Station and how it might be linked to health issues.

Sean Gibbons spoke with podcast host Ira Pastor about the Gibbons Lab’s recent work decoding diet from stool DNA, and many other projects Sean has studied and taken part of over the past several years.