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Monkeypox: What is known and unknown
People lined up near a sign that says NJCRI Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic

At a monkeypox vaccine clinic in Newark, New Jersey, in mid-August, people line up to receive a dose of the Jynneos vaccine. Monkeypox case counts have jumped significantly since the beginning of summer. (Image: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Monkeypox: What is known and unknown

The current outbreak of monkeypox is showing no sign of slowing. Stuart Isaacs of the Perelman School of Medicine, an expert on poxviruses, sheds light on the disease, its prevention and treatment, and what to watch for this fall.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Variant-targeted COVID-19 boosters test the promise of mRNA technology
The Wall Street Journal

Variant-targeted COVID-19 boosters test the promise of mRNA technology

Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine, whose key discoveries about mRNA contributed to Moderna and BioNTech, says that mRNA is designed to rapidly adapt to new strains and variants of virus.

As global health threats evolved, the CDC didn’t
Los Angeles Times

As global health threats evolved, the CDC didn’t

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the CDC fostered a culture of arrogance, overestimating their ability to get things right.

Severe COVID-19 increases risk of life-threatening blood clots
Hospital patient with IV in arm.

Severe COVID-19 increases risk of life-threatening blood clots

A new Penn study finds the clotting condition, venous thromboembolism, was more common in those hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to those hospitalized with influenza.

Alex Gardner

A success story from Southern Africa
A group of doctors looking at an x-ray in a children’s hospital in Botswana.

(Homepage image) Medical trainees and members of the BUP team, including CHOP pediatrician Henry Welch (second from left), review a chest X-ray. (Image: Ryan Littman-Quinn)

A success story from Southern Africa

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership celebrates 20 years of medical, scholarly, and educational progress.

Meredith Mann

From a pandemic, scientific insights poised to impact more than just COVID-19
emulsions of oil and water separated by a layer of nanoparticles.

Bijels, or bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels, are structured emulsions of oil and water that are kept separated by a layer of nanoparticles. Penn Engineering researchers will develop a way of using them to manufacture mRNA-based therapeutics. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

From a pandemic, scientific insights poised to impact more than just COVID-19

Pivoting to study SARS-CoV-2, many scientists on campus have launched new research projects that address the challenges of the pandemic but also prepare us to confront future challenges.

Katherine Unger Baillie

It takes a village, especially during a global pandemic
Group of people wearing masks outside a building in Malawi.

The field research team of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health. (Image: Penn LDI)

It takes a village, especially during a global pandemic

A Penn LDI and Penn Population Aging Research Center team tracks behavior and attitudes in Malawi during COVID-19’s first wave.

Hoag Levins