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Scientifically perfected coffee brew uses less beans for more flavor

Scientists at Penn have tested a method to brew stronger coffee using fewer beans amid rising prices and climate change impacts.

How tech companies could shrink AI’s climate footprint

Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that it’s more efficient to cool off a hot computer through liquid cooling rather than blowing air through the entire machine.

Pope Leo XIV has Haitian, Louisiana Creole roots

Anthea Butler of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses how election to the papacy can change a person.

Generative AI can help doctors diagnose patients—but is it biased?

A new study by Annnenberg School for Communication professor Damon Centola tests if AI tools could help improve medical care without increasing bias. The findings suggest that “AI can meaningfully augment physician decision-making without introducing inequities in clinical decisions,” Centola says.

Collaborating with southern Black grandmothers to reimagine scholarship

For an Annenberg School for Communication dissertation, Staci L. Jones and four grandmother co-authors introduce the Kitchen Scholar Framework. Their work embraces knowledge that goes beyond academia.

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Anthea Butler of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses what an American pope means for U.S. Catholics.

Soon-to-be-graduate hopes to deliver primary care to rural communities

Fueled by his faith, Chip Chambers, a fifth-year M.D./M.B.A. student in the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School, has always looked for ways to serve.“My faith is a huge motivator of everything that I do. I just believe that I’ve been blessed with a lot of things that I didn’t earn and that I have a responsibility to steward those for the good of other people and not for myself,” Chambers says.

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5 questions about mRNA vaccines, answered

Penn scientists figured out how to get foreign mRNA into human cells without it degrading first, enabling researchers to develop it for use in vaccines.

The new pope, Pope Leo, waves from St. Peter’s Basilica.

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Q&A: The first American pope

Melissa Wilde of the Department of Sociology, whose research has led her to the Vatican Secret Archive, among other places, discusses the new Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, and the implications for the Roman Catholic Church.

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3-D rendering of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy, a treatment for a variety of cancers

Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma

A new study from Penn Medicine marks a significant development in the ongoing evolution of CAR T cell therapy, as a novel cytokine-enhanced CAR T that has been tested in patients with blood cancer shows robust response rates.

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