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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Edward Morrisey of the Perelman School of Medicine says that stem cell graft studies are a promising proof-of-concept to help researchers better understand how to effectively heal a lung.
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A group of researchers from Penn found that protective pathways involved in healthy aging are disabled to initiate epigenetic changes that drive Alzheimer’s disease.
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H. Isaac Chen of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues are showing that human organoids implanted into rat visual cortices can respond to flashing visual stimuli.
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A study by Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues points to a human oral amoeba as the host for a recently discovered family of DNA viruses.
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Minhong Ma of the Perelman School of Medicine says that a Japanese study on food odors offers new insights into metabolic adaptation.
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A study by Joseph Fraietta of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues found a way to “armor” CAR T cells, enabling them to get past immunosuppressors in prostate cancer.
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Kiran Musunuru of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the future of CRISPR-based treatments. “It's going to shift from a model where we're taking pills every day or injections every few weeks for long periods of time,” he said. “Gene editing therapies are going to transform that model into one where you have one-and-done therapies.”
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Lukasz Bugaj of the School of Engineering & Applied Science comments on a systematic and quantitative look at how gene information is transmitted and what can influence the amount of expression.
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Karen Puopolo of the Perelman School of Medicine weighed in on the safety of breastfeeding while infected with COVID-19. “At least so far, we don’t have any evidence that babies are getting the virus from the mother after birth and showing up at the hospital horribly sick,” she said.
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Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on a study that proves that there is no evidence for bacteria in the placenta. “I think the case is closed,” said Bushman, whose own research reached similar conclusions.