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  AmeriCorps Member Sara Calder Joins ISB as Systems Health and STEM Coordinator

   Posted on November 28, 2022

  Sara Calder recently joined ISB as Systems Health and STEM Coordinator, and is our second-ever AmeriCorps member. In this Q&A, Calder shares her education journey, her future plans, and much more.

• In First-of-Its-Kind Trial, Scientists Use CRISPR to Treat Cancer

   Posted on November 10, 2022

  Scientists for the first time have used CRISPR to substitute a gene to treat patients with cancer. The remarkable findings were published in the journal Nature and presented at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 2022.

• The Gut Microbiome’s Supersized Role In Shaping Our Metabolome

   Posted on November 10, 2022

  ISB researchers have shown which blood metabolites are associated with the gut microbiome, genetics, or the interplay between both. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Metabolism, have promising implications for guiding targeted therapies designed to alter the composition of the blood metabolome to improve human health.