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Block Its Recycling System, and Cancer Kicks the Can, According to New Penn Study

All cells have the ability to recycle unwanted or damaged proteins and reuse the building blocks as food. But cancer cells have ramped up the system, called autophagy, and rely on it to escape damage in the face of chemotherapy and other treatments.

Penn’s Steve Fluharty Has a Hand in the “Golden Goose” Awards Highlighting Basic Research

PHILADELPHIA -- Steve Fluharty, the University of Pennsylvania’s senior vice provost for research, is participating in a new congressional program that will highlight federally funded science projects.

Liver Fat Gets a Wake-Up Call That Maintains Blood Sugar Levels, According to Penn Study

A Penn research team, led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, repor

NSAIDs and Cardiovascular Risk Explained, According to Studies From Penn's Perelman School of Medicine

After nearly 13 years of study and intense debate, a pair of new papers from the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania have confirmed exactly how a once-popular class of anti-inflammatory drugs leads to cardiovascular risk for people taking it.

Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy Launches Development of Child-Survival Tool Kit for Donors

Each year, before reaching age age 5, almost 8 million children die from preventable causes.

Genetically Modified T Cell Therapy Shown to Be Safe, Lasting in Penn Medicine Study of HIV Patients

HIV patients treated with genetically modified T cells remain healthy up to 11 years after initial therapy, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the new issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Three Penn Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

PHILADELPHIA — Nancy Bonini, Gideon Dreyfuss and Beatrice H.

Arthur H. Rubenstein, Former Dean of Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, Receives Medal for Medical Service

Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh, was awarded the highest honor of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) the George M. Kober Medal, this week at the annual joint meeting of the AAP and the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Penn Study Confirms 2 Treatments for Age-related Macular Degeneration Provide Equal Vision Improvements

Two drugs commonly used to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) yield similar improvements in vision for patients receiving treatments on a monthly or as-needed basis, according to a study from researchers at the Center for Preventive Ophthalmology and Biostatistics (CPOB) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Penn Scientists Develop Large-scale Simulation of Human Blood

PHILADELPHIA — Having a virtual copy of a patient’s blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot.

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