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100th puppy
Puppy with toy standing in grass.

A Labrador retriever, Casey is the 100th puppy enrolled in the Penn Vet Working Dog Center training program. 

 

100th puppy

An 8-week-old black Labrador retriever is the 100th puppy to enter the Penn Vet Working Dog Center research-based training program.
8 possible reasons your dog isn’t eating
Reader’s Digest

8 possible reasons your dog isn’t eating

Megan McClosky of the School of Veterinary Medicine discusses various reasons dogs may avoid eating, including stomach aches, toothaches, stress, and more serious conditions.

Social solutions to antibiotic resistance
Julia Szymczak with a river in the background

Julia Szymczak (Photo: Ashley E. Smith/Wide Eyed Studios)

Social solutions to antibiotic resistance

Research by sociologist Julia Szymczak of the Perelman School of Medicine is aimed at understanding, and eventually changing, behaviors that lead to the overprescribing of antibiotics.

Katherine Unger Baillie

FDA names 16 brands of dog food linked to canine heart disease
NBC News

FDA names 16 brands of dog food linked to canine heart disease

Anna Gelzer of the School of Veterinary Medicine responded to news from the FDA that grain-free dog foods may be linked to canine dilated cardiomyopathy. “There’s no scientifically proven benefit to grain-free foods, so why take a chance?”

Chemo is a go for treating equine lymphoma
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Chemo is a go for treating equine lymphoma

New Bolton Center’s Daniela Luethy’s research on 15 horses with lymphoma concluded that chemotherapy had encouraging results. Her study poses opportunities for further research with more case control.

Penn Today Staff

A new drug target for chemically induced Parkinson’s disease
Grid of multiple brain scans

Findings from Penn Vet suggest a potential new target for treating Parkinson's, an enzyme that wreaks its damage on dopamine-producing neurons.

A new drug target for chemically induced Parkinson’s disease

An enzyme that modifies chemicals formed in the body by alcohol, tobacco, and certain foods may be a new target for treating Parkinson’s disease. The altered compounds may play a role in triggering the onset or advancing the progression of the neurodegenerative condition.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Meaningful science, with students at the helm
jennifer punt with students in canine lab

Jenni Punt (center), a professor of immunology at Penn Vet, is leading the One Health@Penn research community.

(Image: Eric Sucar)

Meaningful science, with students at the helm

With CANINE, a collaboration between the School of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences’ Biology Department, undergraduates are breaking new ground in immunology.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Novel model for studying intestinal parasite could advance vaccine development
Fluorescent microscopic images shows a section of intestine with blue, green, and red labels.

A section of intestine from an infected mouse shows Cryptosporidium tyzzeri parasites in red. The Penn Vet-led team is the first to sequence, study, and manipulate a naturally occurring mouse Cryptosporidium. (Image: Muthugapatti Kandasamy, Adam Sateriale, and Boris Striepen)

Novel model for studying intestinal parasite could advance vaccine development

The intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium causes frequent outbreaks in the U.S., and has been historically difficult to study. A novel model of infection from Penn Vet serves as a new tool to pursue a vaccine.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Domestication made dogs’ facial anatomy more fetching to humans
Scientific American

Domestication made dogs’ facial anatomy more fetching to humans

James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine said humans may have bred dogs to appear more infantile over time. “We are innately predisposed to respond with a kind of nurturing behavior towards certain physical characteristics,” he said. “Over time, [humans selected] for traits that satisfy that parental nurturing response.”

Better prognosticating for dogs with mammary tumors
Two veterinarians in white coats pose in an exam room, one holding a small dog wearing a black jacket and a pink collar.

Karin Sorenmo (left) and colleagues created a practical tool for assessing prognoses for dogs with mammary tumors. The research emerged from Penn Vet’s Shelter Canine Mammary Tumor Program, which assists in treating and then finding homes for dogs like Brownie, pictured with former oncology intern, Kiley Daube. 

Better prognosticating for dogs with mammary tumors

For dogs with mammary tumors, a course of treatment can depend on a variety of factors, some of which may seem to contradict one another. A new system developed by Penn Vet’s Karin Sorenmo and colleagues can make determining a prognosis and making treatment decisions an easier task.

Katherine Unger Baillie