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Penn Study Finds a Genetic Basis for Muscle Endurance in Animal Study

Penn Study Finds a Genetic Basis for Muscle Endurance in Animal Study

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a gene for endurance, or more precisely, a negative regulator of it. Not having the gene relates to greater endurance in the knockout mice that were studied.

Karen Kreeger

Penn’s Social Impact of the Arts Project, Philadelphia Receive $250,000 for Arts Mapping

Penn’s Social Impact of the Arts Project, Philadelphia Receive $250,000 for Arts Mapping

PHILADELPHIA — The Social Impact of the Arts Project, housed at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice, is teaming with the City of Philadelphia to build and launch a Creative Assets Mapping Database, a Web tool that allows users to monitor growth in creative assets and determi

Jill DiSanto-Haines

Penn’s Environmental Toxicology Center Part of Group to Analyze Post-Spill Seafood Safety

Penn’s Environmental Toxicology Center Part of Group to Analyze Post-Spill Seafood Safety

PHILADELPHIA — Penn's Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), is part of a consortium that has been awarded $7.85 million from National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to determine seafood safety following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Karen Kreeger