4/16
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Filter Stories
Penn In the News
COVID boosters can’t outpace new mutations. Here’s why they still work
Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine explains why it doesn’t matter which variant to target when it comes to vaccine-booster development.
Penn In the News
Big batteries are booming. So are fears they’ll catch fire
Sanya Carley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that people will fixate on even rare battery fires and explosions, connecting them to new infrastructure proposed in their community.
Penn In the News
Maybe you should just join a commune
Kristen Ghodsee of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the benefits of communal living and the restructuring of the traditional nuclear family.
Penn In the News
A new blood test may predict your Alzheimer’s risk. Should you take it?
Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine cautions that the uncertainty of learning one’s Alzheimer’s risk from test results might be difficult for some people to handle.
Penn In the News
Scientists turned monkey stem cells into ‘synthetic embryos’
Kotaro Sasaki of the School of Veterinary Medicine comments on the results of a study that created embryo-like structures derived from monkey stem cells.
Penn In the News
No one knows if you need another COVID booster
Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine believes that boosters might not be necessary for anyone but the most vulnerable patients, at least until long-lasting T-cell responses dissipate.
Penn In the News
This stamp-sized ultrasound patch can image internal organs
Chandra Sehgal of the Perelman School of Medicine speaks on the potential reliability and user-friendliness of a smaller ultrasound patch.
Penn In the News
Charity TikTok videos put an uncomfortable spin on morality
Deborah Small of the Wharton School comments on her research on the ways in which we judge others’ motives for charitable giving.
Penn In the News
Surprise! The pandemic has made people more science literate
Research led by Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that Americans know much more about vaccines and public health measures than they did at the onset of the pandemic.
Penn In the News
The biggest deep fake abuse site is growing in disturbing ways
Sophie Maddocks, a doctoral student in the Annenberg School for Communication, said society and law enforcement need to have a zero-tolerance policy for websites that sell fake nude photos of real people. “This harm is going to become part of the sex industry and is going to become profitable; it's going to become normalized,” she said.