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The best new implants may be a piece of you
Stacy Haley standing near a vase of flowers holding out an arm.

HUP patient Stacy Haley received free-flap reconstruction surgery after receiving a double mastectomy. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

The best new implants may be a piece of you

Innovative techniques like autologous surgery involves implanting patients with something taken from a different part of their body, which eliminates the risk of infection and erosion of synthetic materials.

From Penn Medicine News

Guidelines support breastfeeding during parent-newborn separation
Newborn baby laying in an incubator.

Guidelines support breastfeeding during parent-newborn separation

A team of scientists led by a researcher from the School of Nursing has established a new clinical practice guideline using an evidence-based approach to support lactation when parents and newborns are separated due to a hospitalization.

From Penn Nursing News

Ilyse Reisman summer in the writers’ room
student standing outside with hill in the background

Senior Ilyse Reisman, an English and cinema studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a summer intern at the film studio Indigenous Media in Los Angeles.

Ilyse Reisman summer in the writers’ room

An aspiring comedy writer, senior Ilyse Reisman got a chance to be on set and in meetings to pitch production ideas during her RealArts@Penn summer internship at the film studio Indigenous Media in Los Angeles.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine that uses fundamental Penn technology receives FDA approval
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman look at a computer monitor wearing face masks.

Katalin Karikó, an adjunct professor of Neurosurgery at Penn and a senior vice president at BioNTech, and Drew Weissman, the Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

COVID-19 mRNA vaccine that uses fundamental Penn technology receives FDA approval

Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine to prevent COVID-19 uses fundamental modified mRNA technology created by Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó at the Perelman School of Medicine.

From Penn Medicine News

HIPAA at 25 remains a work in progress
Folders full of alphabetized medical records on a shelf.

HIPAA at 25 remains a work in progress

Anita Allen argues that while HIPAA has delivered meaningful benefits to consumers, it still needs updating to address new and emerging privacy challenges.

From the Regulatory Review

Evolutionary ‘arms race’ may help keep cell division honest
A cell undergoing division with chromosomes labeled with fluorescent markers

Evolutionary ‘arms race’ may help keep cell division honest

Research from the lab of Michael Lampson in the School of Arts & Sciences suggests that certain proteins may have evolved to reduce the likelihood of chromosomes “cheating” to bias their chance of winding up in an egg during the cell-division process meiosis.

Katherine Unger Baillie

A joyous Move-In at Penn
move in at the quad Students began moving onto campus this week, beginning to fill up Penn’s 13 college houses. From now until Sunday, nearly 6,000 undergraduates will move into campus housing.

A joyous Move-In at Penn

Moving onto campus for the first time, students share what they are most looking forward to in the year ahead, while their family members beam with pride.

Lauren Hertzler

Atomically-thin, twisted graphene has unique properties
a film of hexagons twisted into a spiral

New collaborative research describes how electrons move through two different configurations of bilayer graphene, the atomically-thin form of carbon. These results provide insights that researchers could use to design more powerful and secure quantum computing platforms in the future.

Atomically-thin, twisted graphene has unique properties

Researchers describe how electrons move through two-dimensional layered graphene, findings that could lead to advances in the design of future quantum computing platforms.

Erica K. Brockmeier