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Uncovering the role of skin microbiome and immune response in cutaneous leishmaniasis
Five people standing in a lab.

Researchers at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine and the Perelman School of Medicine studying leishmaniasis are leading the way to potential new therapies. From left, Camila Amorim, Phillip Scott, Elizabeth A. Grice, Daniel P. Beiting, and Tej Singh.

Image: John Donges for Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine.

Uncovering the role of skin microbiome and immune response in cutaneous leishmaniasis

Two new studies led by Phillip Scott of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Elizabeth Grice of the Perelman School of Medicine demonstrate how bacteria found in leishmaniasis skin lesions and an associated immune response drive disease burden and treatment failure—and suggest new possibilities for treatment of the parasitic disease.

Abbey Porter

High pregnancy weight gain tied to higher risk of death in the following decades
Pregnant person standing on a floor scale.

Image: iStock/Liudmila Chernetska

High pregnancy weight gain tied to higher risk of death in the following decades

Findings from a Penn Medicine study, which analyzed 50 years of data, highlights the health risks tied to conditions like heart disease and diabetes that can occur when more weight is gained in pregnancy than recommended.

Frank Otto

Reading recommendations from Penn experts for LGBT History Month
Various book covers of queer texts.

From left to right, clockwise: “After Sappho,” by Selby Wynn Schwartz and published by W.W. Norton; “City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves,” by Marc Stein and published by Temple University Press; “Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand,” by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press; “Just Above My Head,” by James Baldwin and published by Dial Press.

(Image: Various publishers)

Reading recommendations from Penn experts for LGBT History Month

The LGBT Center, Penn Libraries, and others put forward their literary picks for LGBT History Month.
Experiencing record-breaking heat days affects perception of weather trends
A sunset over Los Angeles in a heat advisory.

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Experiencing record-breaking heat days affects perception of weather trends

New research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that for residents in areas with record-breaking heat, the perception that the weather is getting hotter increases.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work
Two men and three women sit at desks with typwriters, rotary dial phones and desk calendars in an office in the 1950s.

Workers in Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., in 1959.

(Image: CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

  • Q&A

    • A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work

    Penn economists Jere Behrman, who overlapped with Goldin during her time at Penn, and Petra Todd, whose students have been motivated by Goldin’s work, talk about the importance of her research. 

    Kristen de Groot

    Leveraging the body’s postal system to understand and treat disease
    Isolated microfluidic chip with blood sample inside of micropipette 3d rendered in the black background

    A research team led by Jina Ko of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Perelman School of Medicine has developed a new way to characterize the contents of a cargo-carrying particle excreted by many cells, extracellular vesicles.

    (image: iStock / Love Employee)

    Leveraging the body’s postal system to understand and treat disease

    An interdisciplinary team of researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Perelman School of Medicine, and School of Arts & Sciences has developed a technique that allows for characterization of both individual carrier and cargo for clinically important molecules.
    The Detkin Lab’s collaborative playground
    Members of the Detkin Lab in the lab surrounded by machinery.

    Image: Courtesy of Penn Engineering Today

    The Detkin Lab’s collaborative playground

    At Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, the Peter Detkin Lab blends laboratory, classroom, and makerspace.

    From Penn Engineering Today

    Privacy and racial justice in law
    Outside of Penn Carey Law from sidewalk.

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    Privacy and racial justice in law

    In the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, Melany Amarikwa explores the harms perpetuated by TikTok’s unique use of recommendation algorithms.

    From Penn Carey Law