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Gene Therapy Cures Canines of Inherited Form of Day Blindness, Penn Veterinary Researchers Say

    • Gene Therapy Cures Canines of Inherited Form of Day Blindness, Penn Veterinary Researchers Say

    PHILADELPHIA –- Veterinary ophthalmology researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to restore retinal cone function and day vision in two canine models of congenital achromatopsia, also called rod monochromacy or total color blindness.

    Jordan Reese

    Penn Researchers Find Reproductive Germ Cells Survive and Thrive In Transplants, Even Among Species

    • Penn Researchers Find Reproductive Germ Cells Survive and Thrive In Transplants, Even Among Species

    PHILADELPHIA –- Reproductive researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have succeeded in isolating and transplanting pure populations of the immature cells that enable male reproduction in two species—human spermatogonia and mouse gonocytes.

    Jordan Reese

    Frederick A. Murphy Honored With $100,000 Penn Vet World Leadership Award

    • Frederick A. Murphy Honored With $100,000 Penn Vet World Leadership Award

    PHILADELPHIA –- Frederick A. Murphy has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the Penn Vet World Leadership Award. Murphy is the James W. McLaughlin Professor in Residence, Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

    Gail Luciani , Jordan Reese

    Brain Structure Assists in Immune Response, According to Penn Vet Study

    • Brain Structure Assists in Immune Response, According to Penn Vet Study

    PHILADELPHIA –- For the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have imaged in real time the body’s immune response to a parasitic infection in the brain.

    Jordan Reese