Recent Articles

• Bringing DNA Sequencing to the High School Classroom

   Posted on June 10, 2022

  Christopher Lausted and Dr. Danielle Vermaak were featured guests of an ISB Research Roundtable presentation. The husband-and-wife team detailed the planning and rollout of a DNA sequencing curriculum project that was tested in Vermaak’s Lincoln High School science classroom in Seattle.

• Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 in Hospitalized Adults Differ by Age

   Posted on April 28, 2022

  A just-published study provides new information about which hospitalized COVID-19 patients are most likely to need mechanical ventilation or to die. The ISB-led work shows that vital signs and lab results at the time of hospital admission are the most accurate predictors of disease severity, more so than comorbidities and demographics.

• Predicting ‘Long COVID’ At Initial Point of COVID-19 Diagnosis

   Posted on January 25, 2022

  Researchers have identified several factors that can be measured at the initial point of COVID-19 diagnosis that anticipate if a patient is likely to develop long COVID. They also found that mild cases of COVID-19, not just severe cases, are associated with long COVID. Their findings were published by the journal Cell.