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A home away from home for transplant patients and families
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (392+ words) Penn Today Just steps from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia, the Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House offers a refuge for patients'and families of patients'taking the sometimes-unpredictable journey through organ transplant. In its communal kitchens, patients…...
An AI tool to speed antibiotic discovery
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (222+ words) Researchers at Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed Apex GO, a novel, AI-powered method for turning promising but imperfect antibiotic candidates into more potent ones. Unlike many existing AI approaches to antibiotic discovery, which screen large databases…...
From clinic to classroom: How two physicians are rethinking healthcare through business
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (283+ words) What drives a practicing physician to step away from medicine and pursue an MBA? For Samuel Nathan, a doctor from Ghana, and Dan Men'ndez, a U. K. -trained physician, the answer lies in a shared realization: Improving healthcare often requires more than…...
How social and cultural factors shape side effects
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (343+ words) Schnittker and Duy Do, a former Ph. D. student in demography who completed his dissertation on side effects in 2020, recently published "Side Effects: The Social Ecology of Adverse Drug Reactions." "Drugs have active ingredients that can produce side effects, but a…...
Immune protein a possible target to slow Parkinson's disease
1+ week, 3+ day ago (133+ words) The progression of Parkinson's disease is driven by abnormal clumps of a neuronal protein called alpha'synuclein. These clumps accumulate inside affected neurons, contributing to their dysfunction and death, and are then released and taken up by nearby healthy neurons. As…...
Most who meet proposed CTE criteria do not show disease signs at autopsy
2+ week, 4+ day ago (168+ words) CTE, a neurodegenerative disease thought to be caused by repetitive head impacts, can only be identified after death, and therefore linking CTE to specific symptoms in living individuals has proven challenging. Most people who met proposed clinical criteria meant to…...
Scaling from local to global venture
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (97+ words) Penn Today Image: Chayanan via Getty Images The "PARCCitect" team seeing the Betty supercomputer for the first time. A bioengineered bean gum from the lab of Penn Dental's Henry Daniell is found to reduce the levels of three microbes associated…...
Awards and accolades for faculty and graduate students
3+ week, 3+ day ago (301+ words) Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of Penn's Annenberg Public Policy Center, was honored with a Special Recognition Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research for her work in the field of prevention and public health. In the School of…...
Specialized RNA molecules could counter ALS neurodegeneration
3+ week, 3+ day ago (321+ words) Misshapen proteins cause a mess of trouble'particularly in neurodegenerative diseases. But a new study from Penn Medicine suggests it's possible that giving them a little bit of extra support could keep them working correctly, and even reverse the damage they…...
Bringing hope to uterine health patients
4+ week, 5+ hour ago (96+ words) Penn Today Image: Chayanan via Getty Images The "PARCCitect" team seeing the Betty supercomputer for the first time. A bioengineered bean gum from the lab of Penn Dental's Henry Daniell is found to reduce the levels of three microbes associated…...