A larger than life statue of Ramesses II, ca. 1250 B.C.E., dominates the Penn Museum's Upper Egyptian Gallery.

PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania bioengineers have demonstrated that the cells that line blood vessels respond to mechanical forces — the microscopic tugging and pulling on cellular structures — by reinforcing and growing their connections, thus creating stronger adhesive interactions between neighboring cells.

PHILADELPHIA –- Two University of Pennsylvania mathematicians have found solutions to a 140-year-old, 7-dimensional equation that were not known to exist for more than a century despite its widespread use in modeling the behavior of gases.

Watch Saurabh Palan, a Penn Engineering graduate student, test his Tactile Gaming Vest and you may wonder why America faces a shortage of future engineers.

PHILADELPHIA –- Veterinary vision scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have safely and successfully used a viral vector in targeting a class of photoreceptors of the retina called rods, a critical first step in developing gene therapies for inherited blindness caused by rod degeneration.  

PHILADELPHIA –- Veterinary ophthalmology researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to restore retinal cone function and day vision in two canine models of congenital achromatopsia, also called rod monochromacy or total color blindness.

Using gene therapy, ophthalmology researchers from Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine have treated dogs with congenital achromatopsia, restoring their day vision in what appears to be a permanent cure for a form of blindness that also affects humans.

PHILADELPHIA –- Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer introduces UPSTART, a program aimed at developing Penn intellectual property by helping faculty form new companies based on their inventions and technological innovations.

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Comedian Bill Cosby was once given a custom-made Shelby Cobra (from race car driver Carroll Shelby no less) but decided to give it back. Perhaps Cosby should have chosen Penn.