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Zebrafish Model of a Learning and Memory Disorder Shows Better Way to Target...
Using a zebrafish model of a human genetic disease called neurofibromatosis (NF1), a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that the learning and memory...
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Center for Advanced Cellular Therapeutics to Rise on Penn Medicine Campus
The University of Pennsylvania today reached an important milestone in its alliance with Novartis as it unveiled plans for the construction of a first-of-its-kind Center for Advanced Cellular...
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Penn Medicine Bioethicists Call for Greater First-World Response to Ebola...
Amid recent discussion about the Ebola crisis in West Africa, Penn Medicine physicians say that high-income countries like the United States have an obligation to help those affected by the outbreak...
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Media Toolkit: Penn Medicine at the American Society for Radiation Oncology...
Penn Medicine radiation oncologists will present over 20 abstracts at the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO) 56th Annual Meeting at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, September 14 to...
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Penn Medicine Radiation Oncologist Named Among 2014 ASTRO Fellows
Andre A. Konski, MD, MBA, MA FACR, medical director of the department of Radiation Oncology at Chester County Hospital and professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology in the department of Radiation...
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Invitation to Cover: Penn's Third Annual 5K for the IOA and Memory Mile Walk
Nearly 300 runners and walkers will gather to raise funds for research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other aging-related disorders at the Penn IOA. The IOA aims to make a difference that yields new...
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Penn Medicine and Wistar Receive 12 Million Dollar NCI Melanoma Grant to Help...
Melanoma physicians and researchers from Penn Medicine and The Wister Institute have been awarded a prestigious 12.1 million dollar SPORE grant from the National Cancer Institute.
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Penn Muscle Institute Biologists Receive 9 Million Dollars to Research...
Researchers in the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute (PMI), based at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have received $9 million over the next five years from the National...
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Penn Researchers Describe New Cancer Drug Target Involving Lipid Chemical...
Youhai Chen, PhD, MD, and Svetlana Fayngerts, PhD, both researchers in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues...
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Penn Researchers Use Infrared Imaging to Detect Lung Tumors
Penn Medicine researchers are now able to identify cancerous tumors of the lung using infrared imaging that makes hidden tumors glow during surgery. In a pilot study, researchers performed the first...
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Increased Knowledge of HPV Vaccines Does Not Predict a Higher Rate of...
“Knowledge is power” is an old saying. Another cliché warns, “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” When it comes to getting inoculated against the Human Papilloavirus (HPV), it seems that neither...
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Penn Researchers Explain How Ends of Chromosomes are Maintained for Cancer...
Maintaining the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, is a requisite feature of cells that are able to continuously divide and also a hallmark of human cancer. "Telomeres are much like the plastic cap...
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Invite to Cover: Environmental Health and Environmental Justice in...
A group of researchers and environmental advocacy groups will come together to discuss environmental health issues dealing with air and water quality, cumulative exposures, and fuel transportation...
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Gene Therapy Targeting Liver Corrects Cardiovascular Symptoms in Animal Model...
In the second of two papers outlining new gene-therapy approaches to treat a rare disease called MPS I, researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania examined systemic...
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Penn Accredited as One of Six National Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers
Penn Medicine is now home to one of the first fully accredited Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers (PHCCs) in the country, with its Pulmonary Hypertension/Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program at Penn...
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Medicaid and Uninsured Patients Obtain New Patient Appointments Most Easily...
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) granted new patient appointments to Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured patients at higher rates than other primary care practices (non-FQHCs), in addition...
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Penn Medicine Receives 3.5 Million Dollar NCI Grant to Study Cervical Cancer...
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, under the departments of Radiation Oncology and Microbiology and the Botswana-UPenn Partnership, has received a 3.5 million dollar U54...
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Penn Medicine Study Finds Tongue Fat and Size May Predict Sleep Apnea in...
Obesity is a risk factor for many health problems, but a new Penn Medicine study published this month in the journal Sleep suggests having a larger tongue with increased levels of fat may be a sign of...
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Penn Medicine Receives 3.5 Million Dollar NIH Grant to Study New Ways to...
Penn Medicine will receive 3.5 million dollars over the next five years to establish a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) consortium to study new ways to treat...
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Invite to Cover: Stem Cells, Malaria, and the Genetics of Drug Response...
The University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics’ 8th Annual International Symposium (ITMAT), Progress in Translational Science: Emerging Therapeutic Modalities,...
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