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Penn Study Reveals How Fish Control Microbes Through Their Gills

Penn Study Reveals How Fish Control Microbes Through Their Gills

Oriol Sunyer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, has described fish as “an open gut swimming.” Their mucosal surfaces — their skin, digestive tract and gills — are in constant con

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Engineers Use Network Science to Predict How Ligaments Fail

Penn Engineers Use Network Science to Predict How Ligaments Fail

When doctors diagnose a torn ligament, it’s usually because they can see ruptures in the ligament’s collagen fibers, visible on a variety of different scans. However, they also often treat patients with many of the symptoms of a tear, but whose ligaments don’t show this kind of damage.   

Evan Lerner

Penn Study: Visualizing a Parasite Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier

Penn Study: Visualizing a Parasite Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier

An estimated 30 percent of the world’s population is chronically infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Most people live with the infection without noticeable effect, but it can be life-threatening for people with suppressed immune systems, such as people on cancer therapies or who have HIV/AIDS.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Improving Radiology’s Utility and Safety at Penn Dental Medicine

Improving Radiology’s Utility and Safety at Penn Dental Medicine

The oral cavity is a complex landscape, cavernous and full of irregular structures. Using a two-dimensional X-ray to map its variations can only reveal so much. That’s why a technological revolution that has made three-dimensional imaging of the teeth and jaws easier and safer has ushered in a transformation of practice in the dental clinic.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Two Penn Professors Call Attention to the Use of Race in Human Genetic Research

Two Penn Professors Call Attention to the Use of Race in Human Genetic Research

Two University of Pennsylvania professors are coauthors, along with two other scholars, on a perspective piece published this week in the journal Science that calls for an end to the use of genetic concepts of race in biological research.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Junior Tabeen Hossain Learns Eco-Lessons From Two European Leaders

Penn Junior Tabeen Hossain Learns Eco-Lessons From Two European Leaders

By Niharika Gupta The summer before her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, Tabeen Hossain decided to take her academic journey in environmental science and policy abroad to Berlin and Rotterdam. In those two cities, she discovered the cultural aspects of sustainability, environmentalism and policymaking.

Michele W. Berger

Penn Researchers Offer New Approach to Treating Cocaine Addiction

Penn Researchers Offer New Approach to Treating Cocaine Addiction

In the ongoing fight against drug addiction, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine have discovered a unique application for an FDA-approved drug curr

Michele W. Berger