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Penn Team Identifies Genetic Target for Growing Hardier Plants Under Stress

Penn Team Identifies Genetic Target for Growing Hardier Plants Under Stress

The function of a plant’s roots go well beyond simply serving as an anchor in the ground. The roots act as the plant’s mouth, absorbing, storing and channeling water and nutrients essential for survival.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Libraries on Manuscript Team that Won a "Digging into Data" Challenge Grant

Penn Libraries on Manuscript Team that Won a "Digging into Data" Challenge Grant

The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce that a team of humanities scholars and information scientists that includes Lynn Ransom, curator of programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, has been awarded a 2017

Sara Leavens

Brain stimulation restores memory during lapses

Brain stimulation restores memory during lapses

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has shown for the first time that electrical stimulation delivered when memory is predicted to fail can improve memory function in the human brain. That same stimulation generally becomes disruptive when electrical pulses arrive during periods of effective memory function.

Michele W. Berger

Penn Researchers Look to Cuba for Sustainability and Agroecology in Practice

Penn Researchers Look to Cuba for Sustainability and Agroecology in Practice

On many farms in the Cuban countryside, yellow flowers bookend certain crops, placed in such a way to concentrate insects there rather than on the produce growing in the rows between. Equipment-toting oxen and tractors are equally common sights, and combined with a self-sustaining water system, minimize the need to transport fuel across great distances.

Michele W. Berger , Ali Sundermier