A baby with a life-threatening medical condition was successfully treated with a personalized gene editing therapy developed by a team led by Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklaus and Kiran Musunuru of Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses flu and the flu season.

Judd Kessler of the Wharton School writes about markets as systems that connect people to the options they want and how dating could be helped by “market design.”

Nancy Hodgson of the School of Nursing and Katherine Cotter of the School of Arts & Sciences comment on loneliness among senior citizens.

A 2023 study from the Leonard Davis Institute found that equipping clusters of abandoned homes with new doors reduces gun crime compared to clusters of houses that received no remediation.

Penn’s StartUP Fund will support early-stage companies that spin out of university research.

K. Jane Muir of the School of Nursing evaluated whether the presence of virtual nurses improves nurse workload and patient care quality.

Pouné Saberi of the Perelman School of Medicine says tragedies from extreme heat are extremely preventable.

Penn has allocated $10 million to launch a fund aimed at supporting startup companies founded by the school's researchers.