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Has a second person with HIV been cured?
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Pablo Tebas spoke about his research, which used a zinc finger nucleases, a precursor to CRISPR, to modify white blood cells and reinfuse them into patients. While not a cure for HIV, combined with other methods, this approach “might be the way of the future,” said Tebas.
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Facebook, Twitter are blocking dangerous antivaccine posts. It’s about time
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Paul Offit wrote about efforts to stop the spread of misinformation about vaccines on social media. “Nothing educates like outbreaks,” wrote Offit.
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The geography of partisan prejudice
Research by Diana Mutz of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences found that white, highly educated people tend to be isolated from political diversity, rarely interacting with ideological opponents.
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Questions abound after Trump threatens to strip funding from colleges that don’t support free speech
Sigal Ben-Porath of the Graduate School of Education said that a proposed executive order that would make funding for universities contingent on support for free speech may be “a blunt tool against … the wrong question.” A better question, she suggested, would be, “what is some work that we can do to make sure that [students] are heard, to make sure people consider diverse views?”
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Big Pharma lines pockets of groups opposing Medicare changes
“I think we have a lot of evidence from research on financial conflicts of interest in other areas of health care to know that the influence often is unconscious to the people who are actually experiencing it,” said Matthew McCoy of the Perelman School of Medicine, commenting on the pharmaceutical industry’s influence on health care policies.
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Can the new Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics unlock the science of beauty?
Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine was profiled for his work founding Penn’s Center for Neuroaesthetics, which aims to “understand the neural systems that underlie aesthetic experiences and choices,” exploring beauty, art, design, and architecture.
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In America, talk turns to something unspoken for 150 years: Civil war
Boaz Hameiri of the Annenberg School for Communication spoke about a study he conducted in 2014. He and his co-author found that “extreme rhetoric can lead some people to pull back from the brink” of extremism. However, if extreme messaging is normalized in political debate, its moderating effect is weakened.
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U.S. military changing ‘killing machine’ robo-tank program after controversy
Michael Horowitz of the School of Arts and Sciences said the controversy over the U.S. army’s plans for a new Advance Targeting and Lethality Automated System “demonstrates that there are continuing technological and ethical issues surrounding the integration of autonomy into weapon systems.”
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‘Professor Cope’: NFL linebacker’s offseason job? Teaching ‘Life 101’
Wharton alum and New York Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland was profiled for the financial literacy class he’s co-teaching with Brian Peterson of the School of Arts and Sciences. “I don’t care if you’re an engineering student, a nursing student, if you’re going to build rockets when you grow up or if you’re going to sweep floors. You’re going to have to use something in this class,” said Copeland.
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Backup plan is needed to prevent Venezuelan famine
Dorothy Kronick of the School of Arts and Sciences wrote an op-ed about Venezuela’s economic collapse and the resulting food insecurity under de facto president Nicolás Maduro. Kronick proposed allowing Venezuela exemptions from U.S. sanctions in order to prevent starvation.