Genomics

New center will study the complex genomics within individual cells

Junhyong Kim and James Eberwine are leading a multi-disciplinary team in developing cutting-edge technologies that can assess the genetic material inside individual compartments of single cells. The new Center for Sub-Cellular Genomics aims to revolutionize therapies for diseases such as bipolar disorder, autism, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Finding patterns in a class of neurological disorders

Research from Penn Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine has found that the shared pattern is misfolded in Fragile X Syndrome, a member of the class of disorders that also includes ALS and Huntington’s disease

Penn Today Staff

New insights into malaria culprit

New insights from the Perelman School of Medicine on the origins of deadly infectious diseases are vital to understanding the emergence of human pathogens, and may even lead to eradicating malaria.

Penn Today Staff



In the News


The Washington Post

FDA approves two sickle cell therapies, including first CRISPR medicine

Kiran Musunuru of the Perelman School of Medicine says that gene editing will be the biggest story of the century.

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Scientific American

See how stress affects inflammatory bowel disease

A study by Christoph A. Thaiss of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues has traced two detailed molecular pathways from the brain to the gut that produce inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups.

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Smithsonian Magazine

Famed 5,300-year-old Alps Iceman was a balding middle-aged man with dark skin and eyes

Iain Mathieson of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the Iceman genome was one of the first ancient human genomes ever published.

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Indo-Asian News Service

How our genes make us prone to allergies

A team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine found that small changes in the protein called ETS1 can lead to an increased likelihood of allergic reactions that cause inflammation.

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Stat

House GOP inquiry over gain-of-function research targets a scientific giant

Stuart Isaacs of the Perelman School of Medicine speaks positively about his time studying poxviruses in Bernard Moss’ lab.

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NPR

His baby gene editing shocked ethicists. Now he’s in the lab again

Kiran Musunuru of the Perelman School of Medicine says that Chinese geneticist He Jiankui crossed ethical lines and exhibited bad science by editing babies’ genes.

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