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Roy Hamilton of Penn Medicine was part of a research team that looked at whether a minimally invasive brain stimulation can reduce someone's intent to commit a violent crime.

Brain stimulation decreases intent to commit assault

Research from Penn Medicine and the Criminology department shows that using minimally invasive electrical currents on the prefrontal cortex can reduce the desire to carry out such violence and increase the perception that it’s morally wrong.

Study reveals secrets of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ pancreatic cancer tumors

Immune cell makeup of tumors, and their ability to metastasize, is controlled by factors specific to individual cancer cells themselves.

New International House director re-emphasizes organization’s ‘core values’

Josh Sevin, who took over as president and CEO of International House Philadelphia in May, discusses plans for the nonprofit’s future.

Using statistics to uncover the truth about individual cells

Researchers at Penn have developed a better method for interpreting data from single-cell RNA sequencing technologies.

ModLab’s ‘SMORES’ are expanding robot autonomy

A self-assembling modular robot for extreme shapeshifting (SMORES) is designed to experience environmental features and modify its movement and function in response, bringing a new level of autonomy to the world of robotics.

The ins and outs of sugar alcohol

Gastroenterologist Octavia Pickett-Blakely, an assistant professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, explains the workings of the increasingly popular sweetener, found in products like Bai Water and Halo Top.

Penn president accepts recommendations of Working Group on University connections to slavery

This past fall, undergraduate students involved in the Penn Slavery Project, which was supervised by Kathleen Brown, the David Boies Professor of History in the School of Arts and Sciences, reported preliminary findings revealing the University’s early, far-reaching ties to slavery.

Facing ‘a new era of catastrophes,’ book by Wharton profs offers tips for business leaders

Wharton’s Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem’s recent book “Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How Companies are Coping with Disruption” dives into the ways top companies have rebounded after their own worst-case scenarios.

Making complex 3-D surfaces with 2-D sheets

Using liquid crystal elastomer, researchers are able to transform 2-dimensional rubber-like sheets into malleable, three-dimensional shapes, with a precise amount of control for various shape sequences.

Correcting a blind spot

A groundbreaking genetic study seeks to transform the prevention and treatment of glaucoma while reversing historical racial disparities in who suffers from the disease, and who benefits from such research.

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