Genomics

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

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.

Genome editing reduces cholesterol in animals, humans could be next

Successful genome editing trials in large primates offers an alternative treatment to reduce high cholesterol in patients who can't tolerate statins or other drug therapies.

Using statistics to uncover the truth about individual cells

Researchers at Penn have developed a better method for interpreting data from single-cell RNA sequencing technologies.

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Finding patterns in a class of neurological disorders

New insights into malaria culprit

Genome editing reduces cholesterol in animals, humans could be next

Using statistics to uncover the truth about individual cells