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Partisan politics and the opioid epidemic: A social media analysis
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Partisan politics and the opioid epidemic: A social media analysis

Researchers at Penn Medicine explored how partisanship might affect legislative progress on the opioid epidemic by analyzing the content of state legislators’ opioid-related social media posts over time.

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The use and misuse of race in health care
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  • Q&A

    • The use and misuse of race in health care

    In a Q&A, PIK Professor Sarah Tishkoff, the Perelman School of Medicine’s Giorgio Sirugo, and Case Western Reserve University’s Scott Williams shed light on the “quagmire” of race, ethnicity, genetic ancestry, and environmental factors and their contribution to health disparities.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Pinpointing how cancer cells turn aggressive
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    Pinpointing how cancer cells turn aggressive

    Penn scientists have developed a new method for tracing the lineage and gene expression patterns of metastatic cancer at the single-cell level.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    2021 cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows for Academic Diversity named
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    The Office of the Vice Provost for Research announces the 2021 cohort of Penn’s Postdoctoral Fellows for Academic Diversity, the largest in the program’s history thus far. This fellowship program is designed to help postdocs advance their careers while enriching the community of scholars here at Penn. 

    2021 cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows for Academic Diversity named

    The competitive program, managed by Office of the Vice Provost for Research, is designed to support early career researchers and scholars while enriching the Penn community.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    How HIV infection shrinks the brain’s white matter
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    How HIV infection shrinks the brain’s white matter

    Researchers from Penn and CHOP detail the mechanism by which HIV infection blocks the maturation process of brain cells that produce myelin, a fatty substance that insulates neurons.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Researchers discover drug that blocks multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants
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    Lung epithelial cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 (left, yellow) were successfully treated with the STING agonist diABZI (right) by Penn Medicine researchers. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

    Researchers discover drug that blocks multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants

    The drug diABZI—which activates the body’s innate immune response—was highly effective in preventing severe COVID-19 in mice that were infected with SARS-CoV-2 and likely other coronaviruses.

    Lauren Ingeno

    Honing cultural humility skills can improve health care as a whole
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    Honing cultural humility skills can improve health care as a whole

    At Penn Medicine, medical personnel are adopting cultural humility as an ongoing process of developing a set of skills to approach any individual from any culture at any time.

    From Penn Medicine News