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Discovery of a New Genetic Cause of Hearing Loss Illuminates How Inner Ear Works
A gene called GAS2 plays a key role in normal hearing, and its absence causes severe hearing loss, according to a study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
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Study Led by Penn Medicine Reveals New Mechanism of Lung Tissue Regeneration...
New research performed in mice models at Penn Medicine shows, mechanistically, how the infant lung regenerates cells after injury differently than the adult lung, with alveolar type 1 cells...
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Smartphone Breath Alcohol Testing Devices Vary Widely in Accuracy
The latest generation of personal alcohol breath testing devices pair with smartphones. While some of these devices were found to be relatively accurate, others may mislead users into thinking that...
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A Break from Chemo: PARP Inhibitor Shrinks Tumors in Pancreatic Cancer...
More than two-thirds of pancreatic cancer patients harboring genetic mutations saw their tumor stop growing or shrink substantially after being switched from intensive chemotherapy to the PARP...
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Penn Researchers Use Arcuate Organoids to Study Development and Disease of...
Human brain organoids are remarkable platforms for modeling features of human brain development and diseases. Building on methods to generate organoids to model different brain regions such as the...
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Pathway Behind Muscle Breakdowns in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Discovered
An overactive genetic pathway in muscle stem cells was found to shorten the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, resulting in DNA damage that impedes the normal healing response, according to a new...
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Cholesterol-Lowering Statins Prescribed Less Later in Day
Furthering efforts to understand why potentially life-saving statins are so under-prescribed among American patients with heart disease, a new study shows that clinicians are more likely to sign a...
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Rapid COVID-19 Diagnostic Test Delivers Results Within 4 Minutes With 90...
A low-cost, rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19 developed by Penn Medicine provides COVID-19 results within four minutes with 90 percent accuracy. A paper published this week in Matter details the fast...
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28 Community Programs Receive Grants Through Penn Medicine CAREs Program
The Penn Medicine CAREs Grant program supports faculty, students, and staff who volunteer in community-based programs outside of their jobs. This quarter, Penn Medicine CAREs awarded grants to 28...
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Hepatitis C Screening Doubles When Tests Ordered Ahead of Time
Twice as many eligible patients got screened for hepatitis C when it was already ordered for them compared to those who had to request it, according to a new study by researchers at the Perelman School...
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Penn Medicine at the 2021 ASCO Meeting
Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania will be presenting data on the latest advances in cancer research and treatment at American Society of Clinical Oncology...
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Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center Doubles the Percentage of Black Participants in...
A five-year community outreach and engagement effort by the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania (ACC) to increase enrollment of Black patients into cancer clinical trials more than...
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Penn Medicine to Require All Health System Employees to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine
The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) will require all employees and clinical staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by no later than Sept. 1, 2021. The decision, announced May 19, 2021,...
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Penn Medicine Study Suggests Long-term Suppression of Hepatitis B in Patients...
While the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) – primary liver cancer – is higher among patients who have HIV, it’s even higher among patients who have HIV and detectable hepatitis B, according to...
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Game on: Game-Based Program Boosts Physical Activity Among Diabetes Patients
By making a game out of getting their daily steps, new research points to the possibility that people with diabetes could be nudged toward increasing their physical activity, with changes lasting for a...
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The Discovery Labs Signs Foundational Lease with the University of...
The Discovery Labs has signed a foundational lease with the University of Pennsylvania Gene Therapy Program (GTP), which will use Discovery Labs’ suburban campus for a portion of its expanding research...
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Penn Medicine Launches Region’s First Post-COVID-19 Neurological Care Clinic
According to a recent study, as many as one in three COVID-19 survivors experience a mental health or neurological disorder within six months of a coronavirus infection, adding to a growing body of...
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Low on Antibodies, Blood Cancer Patients Can Fight off COVID-19 with T Cells
Antibodies aren’t the only immune cells needed to fight off COVID-19 — T cells are equally important and can step up to do the job when antibodies are depleted, suggests a new Penn Medicine study of...
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Penn Researchers Discover Drug that Blocks Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Mice
The drug diABZI — which activates the body’s innate immune response — was highly effective in preventing severe COVID-19 in mice that were infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to scientists in the...
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“Electronic Nose” Accurately Sniffs Out Hard-to-Detect Cancers
An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95 percent accuracy, according to a new...
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