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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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No one should die waiting for an organ transplant. These doctors want to ensure that doesn’t happen
Researchers at NYU Langone Health built on work from Penn to pioneer the first transplants from hepatitis C-positive donors.
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Why delays in delivering justice lead to harsher sentencing
A series of studies by Samir Nurmohamed of the Wharton School and colleagues found that delays in arrests or sentencing increase the severity of punishments levied by judges.
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What’s the world’s oldest language?
Deven Patel of the School of Arts & Sciences believes that Sanskrit is the oldest continuous language tradition, which means that it’s still producing literature and being spoken.
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See how stress affects inflammatory bowel disease
A study by Christoph A. Thaiss of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues has traced two detailed molecular pathways from the brain to the gut that produce inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups.
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Journalism is a public good and should be publicly funded
In a 2022 essay, Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication defined the “positive” interpretation of the First Amendment.
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Could new weight-loss drugs like Ozempic treat addiction?
Heath Schmidt of the School of Nursing explains how addictive drugs such as cocaine and opioids are generally thought to “hijack” the brain’s natural reward pathways and why semaglutide is complicated in relation to addiction.
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Sleep deprivation sometimes relieves depression. A new study may show why
A study by Philip Gehrman of the Perelman School of Medicine has identified specific brain regions that kick up activity when sleep deprivation lifts one’s mood.
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People, not Google’s algorithm, create their own partisan ‘bubbles’ online
According to Homa Hosseinmardi of the Annenberg School for Communication, ensuring that search engine giants like Google operate with people’s best interest in mind requires knowing how people are using the algorithm, not just how the algorithm works.
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Pancreatic cancer vaccine shows promise in small initial trial
Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine is supportive of findings about a pancreatic cancer vaccine, though he says larger studies are needed to determine effectiveness.
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This might be the world’s oldest tree. And it could die of thirst
Jared Farmer of the School of Arts & Sciences says that long-lived plants and elderflora deserve protection and care, regardless of their status as “numerical champions.”