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Penn Vet Professor Assists in Effort to Empower Smallholder Farmers

Penn Vet Professor Assists in Effort to Empower Smallholder Farmers

To ensure the global population is food secure, it’s estimated that food production must increase at least 50 percent by 2050. One of the best means to achieve that increase is by boosting yield, that is, producing more food on existing cropland with fewer resources.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn: Blinding Disease in Canines and Humans Shares Causative Gene, Pathology

Penn: Blinding Disease in Canines and Humans Shares Causative Gene, Pathology

Ciliopathies are diseases that affect the cilia, sensory organelles that most mammalian cells possess and which play a critical role in many biological functions. One such disease is Senior Løken Syndrome, a rare condition that can involve both a severe kidney disease and the blinding disease Leber congenital amaurosis, or LCA.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Team Identifies Strategy to Reverse the Disease Dyskeratosis Congenita

Penn Team Identifies Strategy to Reverse the Disease Dyskeratosis Congenita

Dyskeratosis congenita, or DC, is a rare, inherited disease for which there are limited treatment options and no cure. Typically diagnosed in childhood, the disorder causes stem cells to fail, leading to significant problems including bone marrow failure, lung fibrosis, dyskeratosis of the skin and intestinal atrophy and inflammation.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Team Finds Mitochondrial Stress Induces Cancer-related Metabolic Shifts

Penn Team Finds Mitochondrial Stress Induces Cancer-related Metabolic Shifts

Cancerous tumors must be fed. Their unregulated growth requires a steady stream of blood flow and nutrients. Thus, one way that researchers have tried to wipe out cancer is to target cells undergoing the metabolic shifts that enable a tumor’s rapid growth.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn-led Study Resolves Long-disputed Theory About Stem Cell Populations

Penn-led Study Resolves Long-disputed Theory About Stem Cell Populations

Adult stem cells represent a sort of blank clay from which a myriad of different cell and tissue types are molded and as such are of critical importance to health, ageing and disease.  In tissues that turn over rapidly, such as the intestines, the self-renewing nature of stem cells and their susceptibility to cancer-causing mutations has led researchers to postulate that

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Vet Research Suggests a Way to Identify Animals at Risk of Blood Clots

Penn Vet Research Suggests a Way to Identify Animals at Risk of Blood Clots

Patients who are critically ill, be they dog, cat or human, have a tendency toward blood clotting disorders. When the formation of a clot takes too long, it puts them at risk of uncontrolled bleeding. But the other extreme is also dangerous; if blood clots too readily and a clot travels to the lungs, brain or heart, it can lead to organ failure or even death.

Katherine Unger Baillie