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Solving medical mysteries with genetics: The Penn Neurogenetics Therapy Center
Janet Waterhouse practicing yoga.

After decades, Janet Waterhouse received a diagnosis from a genetic counselor at Penn Medicine. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Solving medical mysteries with genetics: The Penn Neurogenetics Therapy Center

The Penn Neurogenetics Therapy Center works to achieve a genetic diagnosis for as many patients as possible, and establish clinical trials using novel gene and molecular therapies.

Kelsey Geesler

Potential new therapeutic targets to treat melanoma
A doctor checks a person’s arm for melanoma with a hand-held scanning device.

Potential new therapeutic targets to treat melanoma

Penn Medicine research shows that a relative lack of DOPA, and not simply susceptibility to sun damage, helps explain why melanoma is much more common in people with light skin tones.

Alex Gardner

When curved materials flatten, simple geometry can predict the wrinkle patterns that emerge
A circular cutout with wrinkles forming in many patterns.

A circular cutout of a thin spherical cap carefully deposited onto a pool of water. The sheet forms a complex pattern of wrinkles to accommodate the change in geometry from a sphere to a plane. (Image: Monica Ripp, Paulsen Lab, Syracuse University)

When curved materials flatten, simple geometry can predict the wrinkle patterns that emerge

The findings—from a collaboration between Penn, Syracuse, and the University of Illinois Chicago—have a range of implications, from how materials interact with moisture to the way flexible electronics bend.

Michele W. Berger

Domenic Vitiello’s ‘Sanctuary City’
A group of people carrying plastic bags cross a dirt road towards a bus

Migrants are loaded onto a bus for the U.S. Border Patrol detention center on the second day of the implementation of the “Credible Fear and Asylum Processing Interim Final Rule” on June 1, 2022 in La Joya, Texas. “A majority of people in this country believe that there is a quote, invasion at the southern border,” Vitiello says.  (Image: John Lamparski/NurPhoto via AP)

Domenic Vitiello’s ‘Sanctuary City’

In a book talk at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Domenic Vitiello discussed immigration and community.

Kristina Linnea García

Emma Hart on the death of Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II, smiling.

Buckingham Palace announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-reigning monarch, on Sept. 8. (Image: Jane Barlow/AP Photos)

  • Q&A

    • Emma Hart on the death of Queen Elizabeth II

    The Penn historian and early modern Britain expert shares her thoughts about the British monarch who reigned for 70 years.

    Louisa Shepard

    Do art museums prioritize visitor well-being enough?
    Two people standing in front of a wall of art. One of them is holding up a second piece of art in gloved hands. The other gestures toward the art, holding a computer or clipboard in the other hand.

    Katherine Cotter and James Pawelski (not pictured) surveyed more than 200 curators, educators, researchers, security guards, exhibit designers, and others working at art museums to gauge how museums can impact visitors’ well-being.

    Do art museums prioritize visitor well-being enough?

    Research from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in Penn’s Positive Psychology Center reveals that the people working in these institutions want to see greater emphasis on human flourishing, but they feel ill-equipped to make it happen.

    Michele W. Berger

    How health systems can help build Black wealth
    Three African American medical professionals stand looking at a chart in a hospital setting.

    How health systems can help build Black wealth

    In a new commentary, Eugenia South and authors suggest that health systems are uniquely positioned in several ways to help Black patients, staff members, and neighborhoods in building wealth.

    Kelsey Geesler

    Chewing to curb COVID
    A gloved hand holds a petri dish filled with green colored tablets. Plants in containers are shown in the background

    Chewing gum tablets containing plant material laced with the ACE2 protein are being evaluated in a clinical trial to see if they are safe and effective in trapping SARS-CoV-2 in the saliva. (Image: Kevin Monko/Penn Dental Medicine)

    Chewing to curb COVID

    Penn Medicine will conduct a new clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a chewing gum designed by School of Dental Medicine researchers to trap SARS-CoV-2 in the saliva.

    Katherine Unger Baillie