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Getting science right in the fake news era
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    • Getting science right in the fake news era

    Over his career as a science journalist, Carl Zimmer has seen legitimate science reporting denied and illegitimate science news taken as fact. In advance of a talk at Penn, Zimmer discusses the problem of misinformation and offers tips for avoiding being fooled by bogus science stories.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Johnson & Johnson lands at Penn
    'Bell ringing' at JPOD launch Earlier this month, Johnson and Johnson’s Michael Sneed and Penn President Amy Gutmann joined at the Pennovation Center to celebrate the launch of JPOD @ Philadelphia, a networking hub for several startups in the health and biotechnology field. Avisi is part of the inaugural cohort of resident companies supported by the incubator.

    Johnson & Johnson lands at Penn

    JPOD @ Philadelphia officially launched at Pennovation Works on Nov. 1, expanding the region’s ever-evolving innovation ecosystem.

    Lauren Hertzler

    Be in the know about your health, and be rewarded
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    Be in the know about your health, and be rewarded

    From Human Resources’ 2018-19 “Be in the Know” campaign to details about diabetes, cancer, and other screenings recommended by a Penn Med expert, a breakdown of ways to make healthy living achievable.
    Linguistic red flags from Facebook posts can predict future depression diagnoses
    The new study reveals that indicators of the condition included mentions of hostility and loneliness, words like “tears” and “feelings,” and use of more first-person pronouns like “I” and “me.”

    The new study reveals that indicators of the condition included mentions of hostility and loneliness, words like “tears” and “feelings,” and use of more first-person pronouns like “I” and “me.”

    Linguistic red flags from Facebook posts can predict future depression diagnoses

    The language people use in these social media posts can make these predictions as accurately as the tools clinicians use in medical settings to screen for the disease.

    Michele W. Berger , Michele W. Berger , Katie Delach

    ‘Cancer in all forms is our enemy’
    Robert H. Vonderheide, the Abramson Cancer Center director

    ‘Cancer in all forms is our enemy’

    Robert H. Vonderheide, the Abramson Cancer Center director, talks innovation, discoveries, FDA approvals, and how to deliver top-of-the-line cancer care.

    Lauren Hertzler

    Electronic research notebooks streamline the scientific method
    Schapiro, Kyra with LabArchives

    Kyra Schapiro, a graduate student in the lab of Perelman School of Medicine neuroscientist Joshua Gold, uses LabArchives to plan experiments and track results. Penn’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research has made the electronic research notebook freely available to campus scientists.

    Electronic research notebooks streamline the scientific method

    To do it right, scientific research requires careful record keeping, dutiful repetition of protocols, and, in many cases, free exchange of data. Electronic research notebooks are intended to help researchers up their game and are now available at no charge to the University community through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Dawn Bonnell.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?
    TBI Football Research Senior Justin Morrison (left) and researcher Michael Sangobowale with Ebony Cook, a patient in for a follow-up visit after her apartment ceiling caved in on her. It’s part of an ongoing clinical trial on traumatic brain injury that sees patients five times each, at 72 hours following injury, then again at two weeks, three weeks, six months, and a year later.

    What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?

    Two undergrads interning with Penn Medicine’s Ramon Diaz-Arrastia spent the summer looking for biomarkers in the blood of TBI patients, and studying whether the generic form of Viagra might help promote recovery after such an injury.

    Michele W. Berger

    Teachers become students to become better teachers at GRASP Lab’s RET program
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    The Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine was one of the sites where GRASP Lab members gave local high school teachers a crash course in robotics. 

    Teachers become students to become better teachers at GRASP Lab’s RET program

    The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program run by the GRASP Lab in the School of Engineering and Applied Science is part of a larger National Science Foundation effort to get students interested in science and engineering at an early age. This summer, one cohort of students worked with robots in the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the Perelman School of Medicine.

    Penn Today Staff