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Studying the players in immune regulation
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Dr. Oliver Garden and Sabina Hlavaty, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Burroughs Wellcome Fund Medical Research Fellow, view a plate of cultured canine bone marrow cells to compare conditions during an experiment. Photo courtesy of Penn Vet News.

Studying the players in immune regulation

Penn Vet's Oliver Garden Garden's lab is exploring new facets in regulating immune responses.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The rise of the fat cat and how to put yours on a weight loss plan
Philadelphia Inquirer

The rise of the fat cat and how to put yours on a weight loss plan

“You need to create a lifestyle for the cat that helps it both lose weight and also be happy,” said Carlos Siracusa of the School of Veterinary Medicine. Siracusa recommended feeding cats in ways more appropriate to their natural instincts, providing small meals throughout the day and beyond the bowl to help simulate hunting.

Multidisciplinary team to develop stem cell-based approaches to restore vision
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Multidisciplinary team to develop stem cell-based approaches to restore vision

Gene therapies have had success in treating blindness but can’t save areas of the retina where cells have already died. In a new effort, School of Veterinary Medicine scientists John Wolfe and William Beltran will attempt to develop a stem-cell-based approach that restores vision.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Guess what these young dinosaurs ate when their parents weren’t looking
Philadelphia Inquirer

Guess what these young dinosaurs ate when their parents weren’t looking

Peter Dodson of the School of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences offered commentary on young dinosaurs’ ability to independently forage for vegetation. “It seems like a pretty fair bet that there wasn’t parental care,” said Dodson.

Seven Penn researchers receive NIH Director Awards
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Aimee Payne (left) of Penn Medicine and Nicola Mason of Penn Vet are co-investigators on an NIH Director's Transformative Research Award that will support investigations into the use of immunotherapies to treat an autoimmune disease in pet dogs. Payne and Mason are among seven Penn researchers to win highly competitive NIH Director's awards this year.

Seven Penn researchers receive NIH Director Awards

Seven researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and School of Engineering and Applied Science are to receive National Institutes of Health Director Awards, highly competitive grants to support innovative biomedical research.

Penn Today Staff

Ventilating with mixture of helium and oxygen improves outcomes for horses in surgery
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The new research shows the benefits of ventilating horses undergoing surgery with a mixture of helium and oxygen. (Image: Courtesy of Klaus Hopster)

Ventilating with mixture of helium and oxygen improves outcomes for horses in surgery

Horses are so large that their weight can cause their lungs to collapse while under anesthesia. In a new study, Klaus Hopster and colleagues at the School of Veterinary Medicine found that ventilating horses with a mixture of helium and oxygen can lead to better pulmonary gas exchange.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Dog deaths after grooming documented, but link uncertain
The New York Times

Dog deaths after grooming documented, but link uncertain

Perry Habecker of the School of Veterinary Medicine said that, while dogs dying at the groomer is uncommon, the mere possibility is one of groomers’ biggest fears.

As animal-assisted therapy thrives, enter the cats
The New York Times

As animal-assisted therapy thrives, enter the cats

The School of Veterinary Medicine’s James A. Serpell weighed in on the lack of formal research about the efficacy of animal-assisted therapies. Serpell did note that it’s been well proven that social interaction does generally benefit human health.

Knockdown and replace: A gene therapy twofer to treat blindness
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Maps reflecting the thickness of a key layer of the retina show how a gene therapy treatment (right panels) protected against severe retinal degeneration.

Knockdown and replace: A gene therapy twofer to treat blindness

More than 150 different mutations in the light-sensing molecule rhodopsin can cause retinitis pigmentosa, characterized by a progressive loss of night and peripheral vision, and a team of researchers have developed a treatment for the condition. Successful results in dogs set the stage for testing in humans.