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Two centuries old, a handwritten record of medical education
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Two centuries old, a handwritten record of medical education

Penn Libraries is part of a multi-institution-funded project to digitize materials from early medical education. More than 1,000 Penn dissertations are now online, with the earliest dating from 1807.

Louisa Shepard

Cytokine treatment promotes weight loss by ‘sweating’ fat
Cross section of a hair follicle surrounded by cells.

Penn Medicine researchers discovered that obese mice were able to shed 40% of their body weight by secreting fat through their skin. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Cytokine treatment promotes weight loss by ‘sweating’ fat

A seemingly unremarkable observation—greasy hair—showed Penn researchers how the immune system could be targeted to reverse obesity.

Lauren Ingeno

Clarifying T cell ‘exhaustion’
microscopic rendering of a virus cell next to a t cell.

Clarifying T cell ‘exhaustion’

T cells, which are among the most powerful weapons in the immune systems of humans and other vertebrates, remain substantially programmed to stay exhausted even many weeks after exposure to a virus ended.
Penn Medicine’s new center to improve surgical equity for vulnerable patients
Front entrance of the PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar.

PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Penn Medicine’s new center to improve surgical equity for vulnerable patients

The Center for Surgical Health provides a new access point into sustainable, high-value surgical care for patients who typically rely on the emergency room for treatment.

Steve Graff

100 years of insulin
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Homepage image: Laboratory on the University of Toronto campus where Banting and Best carried out some of their research on insulin. (Image: Courtesy of Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto)

100 years of insulin

On July 27, 1921, Canadian doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated the hormone insulin, one of the most important breakthroughs in treating diabetes. Experts from around the University share their thoughts on the medical triumph on the 100th anniversary.

Kristen de Groot