Lies, Damn Lies, and Experimental Research Statistics
Statistically speaking, there’s a big problem with false-positive results.
Findings
Blood Sugar, Brains, and Memory plus Pain: Separate but Unequal
From Golden Fleece to Golden Goose
“Golden Goose” awards will defend the value of research
Penn faculty members join National Academy of Sciences
Penn profs make it their mission to solve all sorts of crippling diseases.
Penn Exonerates Psychiatry Professors in Plagiarism Case
Medical faculty followed existing rules in ghostwriting claim
Wistar Insitute finds that the immune system can fight AIDS, if it’s given a boost
A team of researchers led by Penn’s Wistar Institute have shown in a clinical trial that HIV-infected patients can fight off the virus by themselves if their immune system is given a boost.
Insidious ARDS
Few people outside the medical world have heard of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, even though it kills more Americans than breast cancer and often leaves survivors in various stages of disability. Some Penn-related physicians and researchers are working hard to blunt its impact.
Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative Launched
$16.3 million for new Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative
Findings
Beyond Bitterness and The Altai-America Express
The Healing Game
What happens when a physician won’t let go.
Penn’s quadrotors go to TED2012, start a band
The little quadrotor robots have been keeping busy lately.
Climate Change, Dark Ages, and Armchair Disaster Prediction
Looking to the past for lessons on climate change
Findings
By the Skin of the Heart...And By the Tail of the Skin, plus Low Birth Weight, High Autism Risk
Reprogrammed Immune Cells Vanquish Cancer in Promising Breakthrough
T-cell “serial killers” offer new hope for cancer treatment
Researchers at Penn receive $1.5 million NOAA grant
Penn team will try to find how sea-level rise varies spatially.
The Perils of Parenting Style
Penn sociologist Annette Lareau says that the way middle class parents interact with their children promotes an “emerging sense of entitlement” that better equips them for success in the world.
Insurance Without Access
For children, public health insurance is no panacea.
The Long View of Shifting Sea Levels
Penn researchers confirm rising sea levels
Findings
Follow the Leader and SpongeBob SugarPusher
Dino Detectives
Penn paleontologists determine pigmentation of 100 million-year-old fossils.
An end to the debate?
Penn researchers prove that sea level is rising faster now than it has for the past two millennia.
The Debunker Debunked
Samuel Morton (Class of 1820) is vindicated.
T-minus Six Days
Catch the Philadelphia Science Festival before it ends.
Untangling Alzheimer’s
A remarkable collection of Penn scientists, led by Virginia Lee and John Trojanowski, is attacking the merciless affliction known as Alzheimer’s, along with other neurodegenerative diseases. But the clock is ticking.