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Out-of-pocket cost increase could put HIV prevention medications out of reach

A Penn Medicine study finds that even modest increases in out-of-pocket costs for HIV prevention drugs could double the rate at which prescriptions go unfilled.

Boura Zerbo Reads a book to her newborn in the ICU.

Books, babies, and bonding: How a passion for literacy benefits the hospital’s smallest patients

Whitney Zachritz, an intensive care nursery clinical practice leader at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, spends part of her week in the 38-bed neonatal intensive care unit curating books for parents to read to their newborns.

New AI tool brings precision pathology for cancer into quicker, sharper focus

Researchers at Penn Medicine have developed an artificial intelligence tool to quickly analyze gene activities in medical images and provide single-cell insight into diseases in tissues and tissue microenvironments.

Art Matters

Art Matters: A monumental steel sculpture on Shoemaker Green

“Atmosphere and Environment XII” by Louise Nevelson, an 18-foot-high geometric steel structure, was moved to Penn’s campus from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2019.

Dag Woubshet leading a class of students.

Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions

Dagmawi Woubshet, an associate professor of English, led a new first-year seminar in the fall that explores Black queer media and its intersection with history and politics.

How Penn Medicine is changing the world with mRNA

Vaccines are just the beginning of the potential for messenger RNA, the Nobel Prize-winning technology.

Fernando Lara looks beyond famed architects to uncover deeper themes throughout history

The architectural historian in Penn’s Weitzman School discusses the need for the dissemination of design ideas beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Dark Energy Survey uncovers clues to universe’s complexity

The decade-long effort reveals findings consistent with standard cosmological models, but open to more complex interpretations.

Medical concept in the field of nanotechnology, a nanobot studies or kills a virus. 3D rendering.

Q&A

Microrobots: An emerging biomedical trend

In a Q&A with Penn Today, Hyun (Michel) Koo of the School of Dental Medicine and Edward Steager of the School of Engineering and Applied Science discuss the emerging trend of microrobots in healthcare.

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Q&A

‘The Tame and the Wild’

Historian Marcy Norton’s new book looks at the history of human-animal relationships in Europe and Native America and how they became entangled after 1492.

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