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Penn Study: New Antiviral Drugs Could Come From DNA ‘Scrunching’

Penn Study: New Antiviral Drugs Could Come From DNA ‘Scrunching’

Evidence of DNA “scrunching” may one day lead to a new class of drugs against viruses, according to a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. The team is led by Stephen C.

Karen Kreeger

Penn Study Describes a Better Animal Model to Improve HIV Vaccine Development

Penn Study Describes a Better Animal Model to Improve HIV Vaccine Development

Vaccines are usually medicine’s best defense against the world’s deadliest microbes. However, HIV is so mutable that it has so far effectively evaded both the human immune system and scientists’ attempts to make an effective vaccine to protect against it.

Karen Kreeger

Penn Vet Research Suggests a Way to Identify Animals at Risk of Blood Clots

Penn Vet Research Suggests a Way to Identify Animals at Risk of Blood Clots

Patients who are critically ill, be they dog, cat or human, have a tendency toward blood clotting disorders. When the formation of a clot takes too long, it puts them at risk of uncontrolled bleeding. But the other extreme is also dangerous; if blood clots too readily and a clot travels to the lungs, brain or heart, it can lead to organ failure or even death.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Omega-3 Lowers Childhood Aggression in Short Term, Penn Research Shows

Omega-3 Lowers Childhood Aggression in Short Term, Penn Research Shows

Incorporating omega-3, vitamins and mineral supplements into the diets of children with extreme aggression can reduce this problem behavior in the short term, especially its more impulsive, emotional form, according to University of Pennsylvania researchers who published their findings in the Journal of

Michele W. Berger

Two Penn Seniors to Aid Parkinson’s Patients With Innovative Motion-tracking Device

Two Penn Seniors to Aid Parkinson’s Patients With Innovative Motion-tracking Device

This is the first of two features introducing the University of Pennsylvania’s 2016 President’s Innovation Prize winners. A rough estimate of the amount of steps taken in a day might be enough for the average fitness tracker or smartwatch user, but, for people with movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease, more fine-grained data could be life changing.

Evan Lerner