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Penn Team Finds 'Molecular Chaperones' Can Halt Progress Of Parkinson's Disease In Fruit Flies and Possibily Humans
PHILADELPHIA - Using fruit fly models of Parkinson disease, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that a class of proteins known as "molecular chaperones" can block the progression of neurodegenerative disease in Drosophila melanogaster. In addition, the group has found evidence that similar pathways may operate in Parkinson disease and possibly other neurodegenerative disorders in humans.
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Nanotube ‘Peapods' have Tunable Electronic Properties, Penn and Illinois Scientists Report in Science
PHILADELPHIA First came fullerenes, those cage-like molecules of 60 carbon atoms bound in a ball. Then came long, thin soda straws of carbon atoms called nanotubes. Now there are fullerenes nested within nanotubes, like so many peas in a pod.
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Clinical Trials for ‘Cytobrush' Detection Technique Show Promise in Fight against Oral Cancer
(Note: Dr. Greenberg is available for more indepth interviews and will help set up photo opportunities for interested photographers or videographers.) PHILADELPHIA Dentists now have an easy-to-use, pain-free way to detect oral cancer at its earliest stages. Called the cytobrush biopsy, the technique underwent clinical trials at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine that showed it to be a significant advance over previous cytology (PAP smear-type) tests.
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UPM Arcgaeologist Keith Devries Asserts that Enigmatic Ivory Statuette, Uncovered in Greece in 1939, may be Part of the Throne of the Famed King Midas
JANUARY 2, 2002t isn made of gold, but a well-known and much-discussed ivory statuette of a lion-tamer, found in 1939 at Delphi, may very well be part of the throne given to the god Apollo by the famous King Midas of Phrygia.
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Scientists Identify Key Risk Factor for Canine Arthritis; Method May Eventually Give Humans Similar Warning
PHILADELPHIA - Drawing upon an international database of some 16,000 dogs, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have pinpointed what believed to be the first solid predictor, in any species, of future arthritis. The scientists have found that laxity in the hip joint - several millimetersworth of excessive play between the ball of the femur and the hip socket - correlates strongly with the advent of hip arthritis later in a dog life.
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Campus transformer
At Penn, old grads marvel and current students revel in the campus’ park-like atmosphere, a dramatic change from the urban hustle and bustle of the 1950s and 1960s. They can thank Laurie Olin and his fellow landscape architecture faculty in the mid-1970s for that transformation. On the other hand, visitors avoid and critics dump on Independence Mall, another attempt to turn urban hustle and bustle into magnificent parkland—one that failed.
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Penn’s Way to heaven With so much charitable giving directed toward the Sept. 11 tragedies, your donation to Penn’s Way and the charities it supports is needed more than ever. Just $4 buys a one-day canoe field trip for a school child. And $50 provides a set of literacy brochures to help 50 people learn how to read. Your donation qualifies you to enter a drawing for some terrific raffle prizes as well as for the grand-prize drawing for an iBook laptop computer. And in our book, your donation also qualifies you as an angel.
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Be someone’s Santa: In addition to the Penn VIPS toy drive (see page 3), there are two other holiday gift drives currently under way that deserve your support. One is the annual “Operation Santa Claus” party for local senior citizens and neglected children. The organizers are looking for toys, games, clothing and other items to be distributed by Santa at a holiday party Dec. 19 at the Sheraton University City. For information about Operation Santa Claus, contact Yvonne Oronzio at 215-898-7234 or 215-898-4210.
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Ramos named chief of staff
Philadelphia native and Penn alumnus Pedro Ramos (C’87), 36, has been appointed vice president and chief of staff of the University. Ramos will start his position on the senior leadership team in January. Reporting directly to University President Judith Rodin, Ramos, who has served two terms as president of the Philadelphia Board of Education, will play an active role in senior-level decision making, serving as a senior policy advisor on short-term and long-range issues.
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Facts no cure for teen HIV
Associate Professor of Nursing Loretta Sweet Jemmott delivered a Provost’s Lecture Series talk Dec. 4 about reducing HIV risk among African American adolescents in urban communities. The following excerpt taken from her lecture discusses her approach to research and HIV prevention and the strategies needed to help individuals change their sexual behaviors.