Good Returns
The dangers and rewards of giving more than you get. An excerpt from Give and Take by Wharton professor Adam Grant. Plus: Interview with the author.
Challenging the Consensus on Dietary Salt
Q&A on dietary salt: too little can be bad, but you still eat too much.
The Revolution Has Not Been Personalized: Genomic Medicine at the Ten-Year Mark
Q&A | After 10 years, genetic medicine mostly a “desert.”
Stopping the Clock?
Will the mainstreaming of egg freezing offer women more choice about when to have children—kind of like the Pill in reverse—or delude them with a false sense of security?
The Sleep Whisperer
Q&A with David Dinges, who knows why you feel so tired.
Getting to the Bottom of the Bag
Reusable bags may carry more than groceries.
Findings
Are you unusually sensitive to Brussels sprouts and hoppy ales?
Smilow Center for Translational Research
Smilow family gift to name Center for Translational Research.
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.