University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
One shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see
Born with a retinal disease that made him legally blind, and would eventually leave him totally sightless, the nine-year-old boy used to sit in the back of the classroom, relying on the large print on an electronic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 25, 2009 |
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Protection or Peril? Gun Possession of Questionable Value in an Assault
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The ...
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Engineered killer T cell recognizes HIV-1's lethal molecular disguises
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues in the United Kingdom have engineered T cells able to recognize HIV-1 strains that have evaded the immune system. The findings ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 09, 2008 |
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Study finds way to prevent protein clumping characteristic of Parkinson's disease
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a protein from a most unlikely source -- baker's yeast -- that might protect against Parkinson's disease. More than a million ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 15, 2008 |
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Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories
If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Male pattern balding may be due to stem cell inactivation: study
Given the amount of angst over male pattern balding, surprisingly little is known about its cause at the cellular level. In a new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team led by Geo ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Tweens sexual activity delayed by theory-based abstinence-only program
A new study weighs in on the controversy over sex education, finding that an abstinence-only intervention for pre-teens was more successful in delaying the onset of sexual activity than a health-promotion control intervention. ...
Feb 01, 2010 |
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A new way to make reprogrammed stem cells
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have devised a totally new and far more efficient way of generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells that are able to ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Proteins by design: Biochemists create new protein from scratch
(PhysOrg.com) -- No doubt proteins are complex. Most are "large" and full of interdependent branches, pockets and bends in their final folded structure. This complexity frustrates biochemists and protein engineers ...
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Tracing an elusive killer parasite in Peru
Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, not all epidemics involve people suffering from zombie-like symptoms--some can only be uncovered through door-to-door epidemiology and advanced mathematics.
Sep 27, 2011 |
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'Good' bacteria keep immune system primed to fight future infections
Scientists have long pondered the seeming contradiction that taking broad-spectrum antibiotics over a long period of time can lead to severe secondary bacterial infections. Now researchers from the University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Study suggests another avenue for detecting Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have determined that a well-known chemical process called acetylation has a previously unrecognized association with one of the biological processes ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Researchers uncover novel immune therapy for pancreatic cancer
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center have discovered a novel way of treating pancreatic cancer by activating the immune system to destroy the cancer's scaffolding. The strategy was tested ...
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Penn scientists discover cells reorganize shape to fit the situation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Flip open any biology textbook and you're bound to see a complicated diagram of the inner workings of a cell, with its internal scaffolding, the cytoskeleton, and how it maintains a cell's ...
Biology /
Nov 24, 2008 |
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New Target for Maintaining Healthy Blood Pressure Discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand the role of prostaglandins - a family of fatty compounds key to the cardiovascular system - in blood pressure maintenance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 24, 2009 |
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