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Health Sciences
Embryonic Heart Cells Thrive Only in an Environment That's Just Right, Penn Study Says
PHILADELPHIA –- Cellular engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have determined that cardiomyocytes, the specialized cells that form the heart muscle, thrive when cultured in an environment that mimics their own elastic nature but falter, weaken or die when “grown” on stiffer or softer materials.
Penn Veterinary Researcher Tracy Bale Receives Career Development Award from Society for Neuroscience
PHILADELPHIA –- Tracy Bale of the University of Pennsylvania has received a 2008 Career Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience.
International Darwin Scholar Janet Browne to Speak at Penn's Year of Evolution
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University of Pennsylvania Scientists Move Optical Computing Closer to Reality
PHILADELPHIA –- Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to well past the speed of light by altering the particle shape.
Penn Media Seminar on Neuroscience and Society
Sept. 19, 200810 a.m. to 1 p.m.Penn Club of New York, Tarnapol Room30 W. 44th Street,New York, N.Y.
John Gearhart, Stem Cell Pioneer, Named Penn's Institute for Regenerative Medicine Director and PIK Professor
PHILADELPHIA –- John Gearhart, who led a research team that first identified and isolated human embryonic stem cells, has been named director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and also a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor.
Penn Partnership Designed to Eliminate Childhood Obesity Takes First Prize in Pediatric Conference Contest
PHILADELPHIA — Students from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Pediatric Acute/Chronic and Oncology Nurse Practitioner program earned first place for their research poster at the 24th Annual Pediatric Nursing National Conference in Las Vegas.
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Bloomberg View
You’re probably not being microwaved right now
The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Kenneth Foster described claims that a classified microwave weapon was used to injure diplomats as unlikely, due to the impossibility of producing radiation powerful enough to cause neurological damage.
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Bloomberg View
Desperate GOP twists Obama phrase into political attack line
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel discussed the debate surrounding changes to the U.S. health care system. “Unlike a single-payer plan that forces people into a government system, Medicare-for-all offers lots of choices,” said Emanuel.
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The Atlantic
With CRISPR, scientists engineered nearly 4,000 mutations of a breast-cancer gene
Susan Domchek of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on new research into the BRCA1 gene, describing the work as a “tour de force.”
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The Atlantic
With CRISPR, scientists engineered nearly 4,000 mutations of a breast-cancer gene
Susan Domchek of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on new research into the BRCA1 gene, describing the work as a “tour de force.”
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Daily Mail (U.K.)
Life-saving 'urine-stick' test for early ovarian cancer could boost survival rates to 90 percent
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Ronny Drapkin attributed delays in ovarian-cancer diagnoses to both misinterpreted symptoms and the organ’s location within the pelvis. “One of the things I tell women is that nobody knows your body as well as you do. If you feel something isn’t right, something’s probably not right,” Drapkin said.
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