Who to vaccinate first? Answering a life-or-death question with network theory Image: iStock/manassanant pamai Who to vaccinate first? Answering a life-or-death question with network theory Researchers from Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine have collaborated to determine the best theoretical strategy for a vaccine rollout.
Revolutionizing data centers: Penn Engineers’ breakthrough in photonic switching Image: Bella Ciervo Revolutionizing data centers: Penn Engineers’ breakthrough in photonic switching Researchers have developed a photonic switch that can redirect signals in trillionths of a second with minimal power consumption.
New ways to modulate cell activity remotely Cells are dynamic, fast-changing, complex, tiny, and often hard-to-see in environments that don’t always behave in predictable ways when exposed to external stimuli. Now, researchers led by Lukasz Bugaj of the School of Engineering and Applied Science have found new ways to modulate cell activity remotely.(Image: iStock/Maksim Tkachenko) New ways to modulate cell activity remotely Penn researchers use temperature to guide cellular behavior, promising better diagnostics and targeted therapies.
Breakthroughs in gene editing and expression control with mvGPT Sherry Gao, Tyler Daniel (pictured), and their coauthors have developed a new tool that can simultaneously and independently edit multiple genes and regulate their expression.(Image: Bella Ciervo) Breakthroughs in gene editing and expression control with mvGPT Penn Engineers have created a gene editing tool that can address different genetic diseases in the same cell.
A less clumpy, more complex universe? A less clumpy, more complex universe? Researchers combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s evolutionary history and found that it may have become “messier and complicated” than expected in recent years.
How fungi make a key medicinal molecule Image: Bella Ciervo How fungi make a key medicinal molecule New research from Penn Medicine has uncovered the catalyst that creates a compound in fungi whose derivatives are applied to treatments for cancer and inflammation.
Robert Gifford’s breakthroughs in real-time system safety Image: iStock/Razvan Dimitriu Robert Gifford’s breakthroughs in real-time system safety The doctoral candidate with the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering Center at Penn Engineering is revolutionizing real-time systems on modern multicore computers.
Q&A: Dean Kumar and the ‘drone’ sightings For more than a month, residents in New Jersey, parts of Pennsylvania, and New York have spotted unidentified flying objects, which local residents refer to as “drones,” hovering over neighborhoods, critical infrastructure and even restricted sites. To learn more about the mysterious flying objects, Penn Today spoke with local expert Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.(Image: Courtesy of iStock/Naypong) Q&A Q&A: Dean Kumar and the ‘drone’ sightings Penn Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar discusses the mysterious flying objects, or “drones,” hovering around parts of the East Coast.
A lipid nanoparticle delivers an mRNA cure for preeclampsia Kelsey Swingle at work in the lab of Michael Mitchell.(Image: Kevin Monko) A lipid nanoparticle delivers an mRNA cure for preeclampsia Doctoral student Kelsey Swingle developed a lipid nanoparticle that delivers an mRNA therapeutic that reduces maternal blood pressure through the end of gestation and improves fetal health and blood circulation in the placenta.
An illuminating celebration to a brighter, greener future nocred An illuminating celebration to a brighter, greener future Members of the Penn community celebrated an energy research milestone: the unveiling of the new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology.