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Improving Lives, Bettering the World
Penn is an academic powerhouse, with vast potential to create knowledge, connect it across all divides, and use it for the progress of humankind.
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Penn Study Converts Adult Human Cells to Hair-Follicle-Generating Stem Cells
If the content of many a situation comedy, not to mention late-night TV advertisements, is to be believed, there’s an epidemic of balding men, and an intense desire to fix their follicular deficiencies.One potential approach to reversing hair loss uses stem cells to regenerate the missing or dying hair follicles. But it hasn’t been possible to generate sufficient number of hair-follicle-generating stem cells – until now.
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3D Printing for Veterinary Surgeries
In PennDesign’s Fabrication Lab, students and faculty use three-dimensional printers to craft geometric forms, architectural models, and other products of the imagination. But in a recent collaboration with the School of Veterinary Medicine, the printers have been put to work making models based very much on reality.
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University of Pennsylvania Announces 2014 Thouron Award Winners
Four University of Pennsylvania students have received Thouron Awards to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. The scholarship recipients are:
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Penn Dental Medicine’s Tina Chou Learns There’s More to Dentistry Than Teeth
By Marjorie FerroneWith a craving to “see dentistry beyond the domestic boundaries,” Tina Chou, a second-year student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, seized the opportunity to advance dentistry in The Gambia in a unique internship opportunity this past summer.
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Modern-Day Ben Franklin Conducts Electrifying Science Demonstrations at Penn
As the founder of the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin’s legacy and spirit of innovation continues each day in the College of Arts and Sciences. In fact, there’s a modern-day “Ben Franklin” at Penn.
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Penn Sori Brings Korean Music, Culture And A Little K-Pop to Campus
When Penn Sori performs at the University of Pennsylvania, there’s a surprising element: K-Pop.The student group, which sings in both English and Korean, enjoys adding the popular musical genre from South Korea to its renditions of familiar American songs.
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Frederick Ding: Penn Ambassador, Leader and Mentor
Frederick Ding’s interest in making an impact by improving the lives of others begins with his work on campus assisting fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania.The bioengineering major from Richmond Hill, Ontario, is co-chair of Penn’s International Student Advisory Board. The ISAB is involved in initiatives to help international students become acclimated to life on campus, and he works to help international students have their voices heard on issues that matter to them.
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Targeting individual cells in their natural tissue environments
The instructions for making all the proteins the body needs are encoded in DNA and found in every cell. But every cell is different and the proteins they need to produce at a given time change based on environmental cues. This information can be gleaned from messenger molecules known as RNA, which ferry protein-making instructions from DNA to the cellular factories where proteins are assembled.
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Brookings Institution Tops List of Penn’s 2013 Global Think Tank Index
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania has released its seventh annual “Global Go To Think Tanks Report,” the most comprehensive ranking of the world’s top think tanks, and again the Brookings Institution tops the list. The World Bank hosted the release in Washington.