A Life Worth Living

Thanks to advanced technology and the family, friends, colleagues, and caretakers who make up his “crew,” Penn neuroscientist and alumnus Scott Mackler continues to function professionally and personally a decade after being diagnosed with the lethal neurodegenerative disease ALS.

Findings

Learning from the Unexpected, The Bachelor Blues, and Swallowing the Holiday-Suicide Myth

Findings

Killer T-Cells for HIV, Adult Stem Cells for Liver Therapy, and the Urban Beauty Dividend

An Architect Walks Into the Lab

Can architects help create next-generation treatments for cancer and lung disease? Will the buildings of tomorrow have intelligent skins? What does figure skating have to do with it? An unusual partnership between Penn cell biologists and design students is tackling a lot of strange questions. Their answers may rewrite the rules of biomedical research.

Prognosis Botswana

Penn doctors, nurses, and scholars are collaborating with their counterparts in Botswana to try to change the course of HIV/AIDS (and health care itself) in one of the countries hit hardest by the disease.

Research Briefs

Attacking HIV with a (Modified) V; Found in Translation: Cholesterol-Cutting Drug; Bending DNA No Problem at Nano-Scale

Research Briefs

Benefits of Neighborhood Cleanup Go Beyond Beauty; Now It’s Matter, Now It’s Not; Stretch Nerves After They Snap