A collaborative team from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine have unraveled the mathematics of a 500-million-year-old protein network that acts like the body’s bouncer, “deciding” which foreign materials get degraded by immune cells and which are allowed entry.
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Decoding ancient immunity networks
A collaborative team from Penn Medicine and Penn Engineering have unraveled the mathematics of a 500-million-year-old protein network that “decides” which foreign materials are friend or foe.
Many U.S. Catholics don’t fully practice their faith. Could Pope Leo’s papacy change that?
Melissa Wilde of the School of Arts & Sciences says that American participation in Catholicism has been declining for a long time, particularly within the last decade.
Weitzman team selected for Special Recognition in the Los Angeles Small Lots, Big Impacts Design Competition
FORMA (led by associate professor of practice Daniel Markiewicz and Miroslava Brooks) and Studio Zimm (led by Weitzman alum Michael Zimmerman) teamed up to design a project for the Los Angeles Small Lots, Big Impacts design competition, and received Special Recognition for their work on both sites within the Gentle Density category.
Over the course of nine weeks, The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law’s 20-person internship cohort will explore projects relating to military aid to civilian authorities, a comparison of prosecution to deportation for effective counter-terrorism operations, character, military firings, and criteria for assessing military appointees, presidential authority and state(s) of emergency, and other areas of research.
World’s most adaptable robot swarm builds without plans, blueprints, or coordination
Mark Yim and Jordan Raney of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and colleagues have developed a swarm strategy that allows tiny robots to self-assemble into honeycomb-like structures by reacting to what’s around them.
