Recent Articles

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  Dr. Jennifer Reich Talks Vaccines and COVID In ISB-Town Hall Seattle Livestream

   Posted on September 18, 2020

  Sociologist Dr. Jennifer Reich, author of “Calling the Shots,” was the featured speaker of a virtual event hosted by ISB and Town Hall Seattle. She discussed the complex and increasingly political world of vaccines, how vaccines are viewed as a personal consumption product vs. a public health solution, COVID-19 vaccine development, and more.

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  Keystone Taxa Indispensable for Microbiome Recovery

   Posted on September 2, 2020

  How can we harness successional ecology to quickly repair antibiotic-damaged gut microbiota? ISB Assistant Professor Dr. Sean Gibbons wrote this commentary for the journal Nature Microbiology detailing recent research that answers that question. Click the link to read the story (link will open as a new window). Illustration by Allison Kudla, PhD / ISB. 

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  ISB Researchers Show Genetic Risk for Disease Often Reflected in Our Blood

   Posted on August 17, 2020

  Diseases develop gradually over years, sometimes decades, before symptoms appear, and are due to malfunctioning physiological processes brought about by our genes and environment. In research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), ISB researchers have shown how an individual’s genetic risk for disease is often reflected in their blood.