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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Bruce Levine of the Perelman School of Medicine called for a moratorium on scientific research that entails gene editing in human embryos. “There has not been a conversation with society at large—the lay public, government, religious groups, NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], stakeholders—because the science has been moving faster than [our own] conversations have been,” he said.
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Research led by Johannes Burge of the School of Arts and Sciences was cited in an article about the potentially dangerous effects of monovision contact lenses and surgical procedures.
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Danielle Bassett of the School of Engineering and Applied Science co-authored an article about network neuroscience, which allows us to see the origins of mental activity in the brain. One day, they write, “a neuroscientist who knew all the principles of brain function and everything about someone’s brain could predict that person’s mental conditions—the future, as well as the past, would be present inside the person’s mind.”
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James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine said humans may have bred dogs to appear more infantile over time. “We are innately predisposed to respond with a kind of nurturing behavior towards certain physical characteristics,” he said. “Over time, [humans selected] for traits that satisfy that parental nurturing response.”
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Martin Franklin of Penn Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences commented on a new method for treating OCD. While Franklin was “very impressed” with the results, he noted that the researchers’ analysis lacked a control group.
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PIK Professor Konrad Kording weighed in on a study that used nerve implants to decode the body’s electrical impulses. Kording said the research is a “sign that the field of neural decoding is growing up.”
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Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School and Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts and Sciences co-authored an article on staying active. Milkman and Duckworth propose making exercise a social event and setting ambitious goals, among other recommendations.
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Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on research conducted on the performance and effectiveness of the H3 vaccine.
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Geoffrey P. Goodwin of the School of Arts and Sciences is quoted on objectivist and relativist views.
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Iain Mathieson of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the need to have extremely large samples to see small genetic variants.