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Farm Share brings fresh foods to Penn community
Produce like sun-ripened tomatoes, cool cucumbers, and tart cherries are as synonymous with summertime as long days and warm weather. Beginning this year, Penn faculty and staff will have the opportunity to enjoy some of the season’s freshest fruits and vegetables—and support local, environmentally friendly farmers—through the Delaware Valley Farm Share, an extension of sustainable food distributor Common Market. The deadline to sign up is Friday, May 30, and space is limited.
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Penn Vet Study Reveals Salmonella’s Hideout Strategy
The body’s innate immune system is a first line of defense, intent on sensing invading pathogens and wiping them out before they can cause harm. It should not be surprising then that bacteria have evolved many ways to specifically evade and overcome this sentry system in order to spread infection.
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PennPraxis proposes user-friendly upgrades to Fairmount Park
Fairmount Park’s appeal to walkers, runners, bicyclists, nature lovers, and the like can sometimes be curbed by the difficulty in accessing some sections of the grounds, which together, form one of the largest urban green spaces in the country.
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Penn biologists find on-off switch for flower formation
April showers bring May flowers, or so the saying goes, but flower formation actually relies on a number of other cues, including day length, temperature, and season.
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Study from Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center Helps Dispel Commonly-Held Beliefs about Cancer Care and Patient Demands for Treatment
Despite claims suggesting otherwise, inappropriate cancer patient demands are few and very rarely lead to unnecessary tests and treatments from their health care providers, according to new results from a study that will be presented by researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago in early June
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Vignesh Selvakumaran Awarded Penn’s Sobti Family Fellowship
The Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania has awarded its inaugural 2014-15 Sobti Family Fellowship to senior Vignesh Selvakumaran.
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Michael X. Delli Carpini’s Term Extended as Dean of Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication
Michael X. Delli Carpini, professor of communication and Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has agreed to an extension of his term as dean until June 30, 2018.
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Penn Study Reveals Breastfeeding, Birth Control Pills May Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk Among Women with BRCA Gene Mutations
Breastfeeding, tubal ligation – also known as having one’s “tubes tied” – and oral contraceptives may lower the risk of ovarian cancer for some women with BRCA gene mutations, according to a comprehensive analysis from a team at the University of Pennsylvania's Basser Research Center for BRCA and the Abramson Cancer Center.
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Bioethics Commission Plays Early Role in BRAIN Initiative; Penn’s Gutmann Is Chair
A new report from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues calls for the integration of ethics across the life of neuroscientific research endeavors.
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Penn Medicine: Large Panel Genetic Testing Produces More Questions than Answers in Breast Cancer
While large genetic testing panels promise to uncover clues about patients’ DNA, a team of researchers from Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) has found that those powerful tests tend to produce more questions than they answer. In a study of 278 women with early onset breast cancer who did not have the BRCA genes, the researchers found that only 2.5 percent of the patients had inherited mutations that were actually clinically actionable.