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Ancient medicine in today’s world
An ayahuasca plant in Brazil.

Image: Courtesy of Taylor Dysart

Ancient medicine in today’s world

Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of History and Sociology of Science, probes modern science’s enthrallment with the powerful Amazonian intoxicant ayahuasca.

From Omnia

Fair use in visual arts
Left: Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith; Right: Art work from The Andy Warhol Foundation 

(Left) Photograph © Lynn Goldsmith. (Right) Artwork from The Andy Warhol Foundation.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law)

Fair use in visual arts

Penn Carey Law’s Cynthia Dahl weighs in on the SCOTUS decision regarding Andy Warhol and fair use in art.

From Penn Carey Law

Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections
Before and after fluorescence imaging of fungal accumilations being removed by microrobots.

Candida albicans is a species of yeast that is a normal part of the human microbiota but can also cause severe infections that pose a significant global health risk due to their resistance to existing treatments, so much so that the World Health Organization has highlighted this as a priority issue. The picture above shows a before (left) and after (right) fluorescence image of fungal biofilms being precisely targeted by nanozyme microrobots without bonding to or disturbing the tissue sample.

(Image: Min Jun Oh and Seokyoung Yoon)

Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections

Researchers from Penn Dental and Penn Engineering have developed a nanorobot system that precisely and rapidly targets fungal infections in the mouth.
Folding@home: How you, and your computer, can play scientist
Gregory Bowman kneeling down in front of a server.

Folding@home is led by Gregory Bowman, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor who has appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Folding@home: How you, and your computer, can play scientist

Two heads are better than one. The ethos behind the scientific research project Folding@home is that same idea, multiplied: 50,000 computers are better than one.

Alex Gardner

Why the Vaccine Safety Reporting System should be renamed
preparing a shot at the vaccine clinic

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Why the Vaccine Safety Reporting System should be renamed

VAERS, the federal health system for reporting “adverse events” after vaccination, is designed to assist in the early detection of complications and responsive action. But the flood of social media references to the system during the COVID-19 pandemic created confusion.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Three things to know about the debt ceiling fight
A person is seen walking in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.

People pass the front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on March 22, 2023. Brinkmanship in Washington over raising the U.S. debt ceiling has begun to raise worries in parts of the financial markets.

 (Image: AP Photo/Peter Morgan, file)

Three things to know about the debt ceiling fight

Economist Harold L. Cole of the School of Arts & Sciences offers an overview of what could happen should the U.S. default on debt payments because no spending deal is reached.

Kristen de Groot

What TikTok reveals about Gen Z dating
A young woman lies sideways on a bed, gazing at her phone

In her thesis, Talia Fiester looked at contemporary Gen Z dating against the backdrop of neoliberalism and what she calls “the rejection of the couple form.” She did so by analyzing one of Gen Z’s pervasive mediums—TikTok.

(Image: Beton Studio)

What TikTok reveals about Gen Z dating

In an honors thesis for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, 2023 grad Talia Fiester examines “Neoliberal Love and the Pathology of Gen Z’s Singledom.”

Kristina García