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Penn Team Reverses Signs of Naturally Occurring Chronic Periodontitis

Penn Team Reverses Signs of Naturally Occurring Chronic Periodontitis

Periodontitis, a gum disease present in nearly half of all adults in the United States, involves inflammation, bleeding and bone loss. In its severe form, it is associated with systemic inflammatory conditions such as atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Balancing Privacy and Security in Network Analysis

Balancing Privacy and Security in Network Analysis

In the digital age, data is ubiquitous. The increasing ease with which every online interaction can be stored, compared and analyzed has transformed a wide swath of business and led to the formation of new ones.

Evan Lerner

A Voyage of Discovery for Freshmen at Penn

A Voyage of Discovery for Freshmen at Penn

Ian Petrie is not a maritime historian. And none of the 12 students who enrolled in his freshmen seminar had substantive experience with handwritten 19th-century manuscripts.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Raising Age of Majority Doesn’t Affect Teen Crime Rates, Penn Research Shows

Raising Age of Majority Doesn’t Affect Teen Crime Rates, Penn Research Shows

In the criminal justice world, there’s an ongoing debate about whether to increase the age of majority, the point at which an adolescent can no longer be tried in the juvenile legal system and instead must be tried as an adult.

Michele W. Berger

Penn Study: Machine Learning at Arraignments Can Cut Repeat Domestic Violence

Penn Study: Machine Learning at Arraignments Can Cut Repeat Domestic Violence

In one large metropolitan area, arraignment decisions made with the assistance of machine learning cut new domestic violence incidents by half, leading to more than 1,000 fewer such post-arraignment arrests annually, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania.

Michele W. Berger