New Penn-Designed Gel Allows for Targeted Therapy After Heart Attack New Penn-Designed Gel Allows for Targeted Therapy After Heart Attack Combatting the tissue degrading enzymes that cause lasting damage following a heart attack is tricky. Each patient responds to a heart attack differently and damage can vary from one part of the heart muscle to another, but existing treatments can’t be fine-tuned to deal with this variation.
Penn Students to Host Philadelphia Middle Schoolers for ‘Science Day’ April 3 Penn Students to Host Philadelphia Middle Schoolers for ‘Science Day’ April 3 WHO: Students from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Rising Sons, a Philadelphia nonprofit
Penn Dental Medicine-NIH Team Reverses Bone Loss in Immune Disorder Penn Dental Medicine-NIH Team Reverses Bone Loss in Immune Disorder Patients with leukocyte adhesion deficiency, or LAD, suffer from frequent bacterial infections, including the severe gum disease known as periodontitis. These patients often lose their teeth early in life.
Disabilities Symposium at Penn: April 11 Disabilities Symposium at Penn: April 11 WHAT: The 13th Annual Disabilities Symposium, hosted by the Weingarten Learning Resources Center, University of Pennsylvania, will welcome guest speakers Angela Duckworth and Adam Taliaferro.
Penn-designed Device Shows Promise for Individualized Care in Stroke Patients Penn-designed Device Shows Promise for Individualized Care in Stroke Patients Using a University of Pennsylvania-designed device to noninvasively and continuously monitor cerebral blood flow (CBF) in acute stroke patients, researchers from Penn Medicine and the Department of Physics & Astronomy in Penn Arts and Sciences are now learning how head o
Deep Ocean Current May Slow Due to Climate Change, Penn Research Finds Deep Ocean Current May Slow Due to Climate Change, Penn Research Finds Far beneath the surface of the ocean, deep currents act as conveyer belts, channeling heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the globe.
Penn Study Suggests Cause of Severe Tooth Decay in Toddlers Penn Study Suggests Cause of Severe Tooth Decay in Toddlers Early childhood caries involve a highly aggressive and painful form of tooth decay that frequently occurs in preschool children, especially those who come from backgrounds of poverty. The resulting decay can become so severe that treatment frequently requires surgery.
Owl Monkeys Don’t Cheat, Penn Study Shows; Intense Fathering Plays a Role Owl Monkeys Don’t Cheat, Penn Study Shows; Intense Fathering Plays a Role True monogamy is rare in the animal kingdom. Even in species that appear to “mate for life,” genetic maternity and paternity tests have revealed that philandering often takes place.
Solving Society's Greatest Energy Challenges Solving Society's Greatest Energy Challenges When University sophomore Albert Xiao joined the first class of the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), a dual-degree program in Penn Arts & Sciences and the
Penn Team Links Africans’ Ability to Digest Milk to Spread of Cattle Raising Penn Team Links Africans’ Ability to Digest Milk to Spread of Cattle Raising Babies are born with the ability to digest lactose, the sugar found in milk, but most humans lose this ability after infancy because of declining levels of the lactose-digesting enzyme lactase.