Recent Articles

• COCOA Trial Results Show Diet, Exercise Help Some with Dementia

   Posted on October 28, 2022

  The recently completed, ISB-led Coaching for Cognition in Alzheimer’s (COCOA) trial shows that diet and exercise can help people suffering from dementia. Senior Research Scientist Dr. Jared Roach discussed the findings in a Research Roundtable presentation.

• 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.