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Penn Medicine Announces Chester County Hospital and Health System as a New Member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and the Board of Directors of The Chester County Hospital and Health System (TCCHHS) today announced TCCHHS as a new member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. TCCHHS includes a 245-bed hospital complex in West Chester and satellite locations in Exton, West Goshen, New Garden, Jennersville and Kennett Square. The announcement serves as the final step of plans put in motion earlier this year by Penn Medicine and TCCHSS to form a strategic corporate partnership.
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Penn Team Begins Five-Year Sky-Mapping Mission as Part of Dark Energy Survey
For hundreds of nights during the next five years, the world’s most powerful digital camera will turn skyward, helping a team of physicists and astronomers from around the globe answer fundamental questions about our universe. Astronomers from the University of Pennsylvania are playing an integral role in this team and its mission, a project known as the Dark Energy Survey. The project officially began on Aug. 31, the culmination of 10 years of planning, building and testing by scientists from 25 institutions in six countries.
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Delivering Drugs With Plants, Penn’s Henry Daniell Aims to Save Lives
An admonishment to eat your greens may take on a whole new meaning if Henry Daniell, who recently joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, has anything to do with it.
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Penn Student Contributes to the Design of a Safer Coronary Stent
As a participant in the Roy and Diana Vagelos Scholars Program in the Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, senior Chris Kampmeyer has spent the past year testing the shapes of coronary stent struts. “I’m interested in finding applications of biochemistry in the broadest sense, a goal which influenced my decision to pursue work in cardiovascular research,” Kampmeyer, from Harleysville, Pa., says.
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Penn Develops Computer Model That Will Help Design Flexible Touchscreens
Electronic devices with touchscreens are ubiquitous, and one key piece of technology makes them possible: transparent conductors.
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Penn Biologists Show That Generosity Leads to Evolutionary Success
With new insights into the classical game theory match-up known as the “Prisoner’s Dilemma,” University of Pennsylvania biologists offer a mathematically based explanation for why cooperation and generosity have evolved in nature.
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Penn Medicine: Balancing Act: Cell Senescence, Aging Related to Epigenetic Changes
One way cells promote tumor suppression is through a process called senescence, an irreversible arrest of proliferation. Senescence is thought to be associated with normal aging, but is also a protective measure by the body against run-away cell replication. Studying the basic science of senescence gives biomedical researchers a better understanding of the mechanisms behind age-related diseases such as cancer.
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Penn: Protein That Protects Nucleus Also Regulates Stem Cell Differentiation
The human body has hundreds of different cell types, all with the same basic DNA, and all of which can ultimately be traced back to identical stem cells.
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New-look Penn Bookstore offers bolstered features, increased services
The Penn Bookstore has a new look, and is offering patrons an increased array of consumer options and customer care.
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ARG showcases Auguste Rodin sculpture show
Artist Auguste Rodin has been called the forefather of modern sculpture. Widely recognized for his innovative work in deconstructing the human body into fragments or partial figures, his works of art touch on emotion, realism, and movement. In his day, Rodin was a nonconformist, rebelling against 19th century French academic standards, which were largely focused on decorative figure sculptures that followed a theme, such as mythology. His avoidance of traditional models and poses would come to define his legacy.