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Demystifying genomic technology for veterinary researchers
Abstract image indicating diversity of data generated by genome sequences

Demystifying genomic technology for veterinary researchers

The School of Veterinary Medicine’s Center for Host-Microbial Interactions helps researchers delving into ‘omics’ to promote animal and human health.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Negotiating a truce in the war on drugs
Participants at the Addicted to the War on Drugs Symposium

Ethan Nadelman, founder and former executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, Penn political science professor Marie Gottschalk, Evan Anderson, a senior lecturer in the School of Nursing, and Roseanne Scotti, the New Jersey director of the Drug Policy Alliance, discussed their policy ideas. (Photo: Gwyneth K. Shaw)

Negotiating a truce in the war on drugs

A Penn Law symposium brought together experts from the legal, law enforcement, social work, and policy camps to discuss how to refocus the decades-long fight to be less punitive and more protective.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

Green labs group strives to make science more sustainable
A person in a lab pours a bin full of plastic petri dishes into a blue recycling bin.

In circumstances when plastic petri dishes are necessary for laboratory work, Preston ensure that they are properly cleaned and sorted for recycling. Reducing waste of all kinds, however, is the number one goal.

Green labs group strives to make science more sustainable

With a Green Labs working group, Elicia Preston of the Perelman School of Medicine and the University’s Sustainability Office in Facilities and Real Estate Services are striving to make the pursuit of scientific research a more eco-friendly endeavor.

Katherine Unger Baillie

With a second patient free from HIV, what’s next?
stem cell pipette

With a second patient free from HIV, what’s next?

Scientists have succeeded in sending an HIV patient into long-term remission, only the second time such a feat has been documented. Pablo Tebas and Bridgette Brawner discuss what this means for HIV research and for people living with the virus.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Making headway against a killer virus
ebola virus through the microscope

Making headway against a killer virus

Around Penn, clinicians and researchers are focused on Ebola, working to ensure this disease—fearsomely lethal—can be vanquished.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Is dog walking hazardous to senior health?
a couple walking a bulldog in the sunshine

Is dog walking hazardous to senior health?

Between 2004 and 2017, dog walking related fractures in people 65 or older more than doubled, and two factors are the cause: increased pet ownership and a greater emphasis, in recent years, on physical activity at older ages.

Penn Today Staff

Cancer most frequently spreads to the liver. Here’s why.
Stock image of medical professional with 3-D model of liver

Cancer most frequently spreads to the liver. Here’s why.

Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center shows hepatocytes, the chief functional cells of the liver, orchestrate the “seed and soil” process for cancer to spread to the liver.

Penn Today Staff

Largest-ever Alzheimer’s gene study reveals five new genes that increase risk
The amyloid precursor protein

The amyloid precursor protein

Largest-ever Alzheimer’s gene study reveals five new genes that increase risk

The International Genomic Alzheimer’s Project analyzed information from more than 94,000 individuals and found new information on the underlying causes of Alzheimer disease, including five new genes that increase risk for the disease. 

Penn Today Staff