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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
A study led by David Barack of the Perelman School of Medicine suggests that ADHD may have played a major role in foraging and survival for ancient hunter-gatherers.
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Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine, who won the Nobel Prize for mRNA vaccines along with Katalin Karikó, is researching an mRNA vaccine against cancer.
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Jill Biden on Sunday followed in the footsteps of John F. Kennedy and visited the National Children’s Hospital of Costa Rica. She was celebrating a partnership between Costa Rica’s public health authority and the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which will help Costa Rican children access a lifesaving cancer treatment.
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Gideon Nave of the Wharton School spoke about research he co-authored, which identified areas of the brain linked with risk-taking. “We find that we don’t have only one brain region that is the ‘risk area,’” he said. “There are a lot of regions involved.”
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The Perelman School of Medicine’s Ronny Drapkin attributed delays in ovarian-cancer diagnoses to both misinterpreted symptoms and the organ’s location within the pelvis. “One of the things I tell women is that nobody knows your body as well as you do. If you feel something isn’t right, something’s probably not right,” Drapkin said.
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Margaret Bruchac of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on a painting that depicts a Native American holding an object that resembles a smartphone and notes that it “says much about modern American fantasies and fictions of colonial white dominance vis-à-vis Indians.”