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Researchers at Penn Show Optimal Framework for Heartbeats

Researchers at Penn Show Optimal Framework for Heartbeats

The heart maintains a careful balancing act; too soft and it won’t pump blood, but too hard and it will overtax itself and stop entirely. There is an optimal amount of strain that a beating heart can generate and still beat at its usual rate, once per second.

Evan Lerner

Penn’s Center for Tech Transfer Partners With British-based IP Group

Penn’s Center for Tech Transfer Partners With British-based IP Group

The University of Pennsylvania, through its Center for Technology Transfer and its UPstart company formation program, has announced a new partnership with IP Group PLC, developer of intellectual property-based businesses. 

Evan Lerner , Liz Vaughan-Adams

Penn Medicine: Brain Connectivity Study Reveals Striking Differences Between Men and Women

Penn Medicine: Brain Connectivity Study Reveals Striking Differences Between Men and Women

A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences found striking differences in the neural wiring of men and women that’s lending credence to some commonly-held beliefs about their behavior.

Steve Graff

Memories Are ‘Geotagged’ With Spatial Information, Penn Researchers Say

Memories Are ‘Geotagged’ With Spatial Information, Penn Researchers Say

Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University has discovered how brain cells that encode spatial information form “geotags” for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.

Evan Lerner

Five Penn Faculty Earn Distinction as AAAS Fellows

Five Penn Faculty Earn Distinction as AAAS Fellows

Five faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Karen Kreeger

Researchers at Penn Uncover Mechanism Behind Blood Stem Cells’ Longevity

Researchers at Penn Uncover Mechanism Behind Blood Stem Cells’ Longevity

The blood stem cells that live in bone marrow are at the top of a complex family tree. Such stem cells split and divide down various pathways that ultimately produce red cells, white cells and platelets.

Evan Lerner

Penn Alumna Meghan Hussey Awarded George J. Mitchell Scholarship

Penn Alumna Meghan Hussey Awarded George J. Mitchell Scholarship

Meghan Hussey, a 2012 University of Pennsylvania graduate, is one of 12 Americans selected to receive a George J. Mitchell Scholarship for graduate studies in Ireland or Northern Ireland.

Jacquie Posey