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Three viruses are waging an attack. But you don’t have to surrender

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues have developed an experimental mRNA flu vaccine that could fight the entire family of influenza viruses.

Is Madison’s guaranteed-income pilot program funded by taxpayers?

Research centers at Penn will survey participants after a 12-month guaranteed income pilot program to gauge its impact.

People and places at Penn: Research

From Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall to the Schuylkill River, four researchers share their science and their spaces.

Suicide doesn’t increase during the holidays, but the media perpetuates that myth, new Penn study finds

An analysis from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more than half of media references to the “holiday-suicide myth” last year failed to debunk it, with quotes from Dan Romer.

Penn scientists made a universal flu vaccine using mRNA, and they plan to test it in humans

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues are using mRNA to develop a universal flu vaccine, with plans being made for human testing.

Can the Fed keep inflation under control without sacrificing jobs?

Kaleb Nygaard of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the Fed needs to prioritize its inflation fight but that a percentage point rise in unemployment might put more than one and a half million workers out of a job.

Four bottles of Influenza vaccine beside one medical syringe.

New mRNA vaccine to fight 20 known subtypes of influenza

Heading into clinical trials, the new research from Penn Medicine may serve as a general preventative measure against future flu pandemics.

A small tannish colored monkey on a tree, eating a leaf, surrounded by leaves with branches. Blurred trees are in the background.

A link between social environment and healthy brains in wild rhesus macaques

Research from Penn, Arizona State University, the National Institute of Mental Health, and elsewhere finds that on the island of Cayo Santiago, female monkeys with a higher social status had younger, more resilient molecular profiles.

Minimally invasive method tracks how the brain spends energy

Penn researchers have developed a new technique for monitoring the brain’s metabolic rate of oxygen consumption, a measure of the brain’s consumption of energy.

Recently discovered virus family infects a human oral amoeba

A study by Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues points to a human oral amoeba as the host for a recently discovered family of DNA viruses.

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