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Penn Researchers Find New Role for Cancer Protein p53

    • Penn Researchers Find New Role for Cancer Protein p53

    PHILADELPHIA - The gene for the protein p53 is the most frequently mutated in human cancer. It encodes a tumor suppressor, and traditionally researchers have assumed that it acts primarily as a regulator of how genes are made into proteins.

    Karen Kreeger

    First International Collaboration on the Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Is Launched

    • First International Collaboration on the Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Is Launched

    The launch of the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP) – a collaboration formed to discover and map the genes that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease – was announced Feb. 1 by a multi-national group of researchers.

    Karen Kreeger

    Penn Study Shows Hospital Nurses Dissatisfied With Health Benefits

    • Penn Study Shows Hospital Nurses Dissatisfied With Health Benefits

    Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that nearly 41 per cent of nurses working in American hospitals and health-care settings were dissatisfied with their health-care benefits.  The figure is more than double that of nurses working in other settings and indicates broad-based disincentives for attracting nurses to work at the bedside.

    Joy McIntyre

    Immune Cells Protect Body from Invaders, According to Penn Researchers

    • Immune Cells Protect Body from Invaders, According to Penn Researchers

    PHILADELPHIA - So-called barrier sites -- the skin, gut, lung – limit the inner body’s exposure to allergens, pollutants, viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Understanding how the immune system works in these external surfaces has implications for understanding such inflammatory diseases as asthma, psoriasis, IBD, and food allergies, all of which occur at the body’s barriers.

    Karen Kreeger