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.
Findings Political Edition
Just Say No(thing)? and The Geniuses of Democracy
Decoding Cancer’s Fuel
Cancer advance is “technical tour de force”
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Leaf Fever, Salvation Through Mutation, and the Case for Naptime
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Waterlogged, Now You See It, Bargain Envy, and Wrongful Diagnosis.
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Magnets for the blues, whistling while they work and engineering nerve tissue
“Simple Approach” May Defuse Complicated Stem-Cell Controversy
James Thomson V’85 Gr’88
Finding Zeus
New Museum finds from the B.Z.—“before Zeus”—era
Blame It On My Genes, Your Honor
The DNA Defense?
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Research in Brief
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Research Briefs
Research briefs
Tolerating Torture
Whistle-blowing may increase acceptance of torture.
Research in Brief
Blood Pressure by the Clock; Single-Parent Stem Cells; Why We Sniff.
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
Gene Detective
ene detective Daniel Weinberger M’73
Research Briefs
Compromised keyboards, measuring moods, the eye and the ethernet
Promise and Politics
While the bioethical debate over stem-cell research rages on, Penn scientists are making progress using adult-human and animal stem cells—and hoping for broader future support for studies using embryonic stem cells.
What’s in Stock at the Pharmacy “the Morning After”?
Student researcher reveals politics of emergency contraception
Research in Brief
Sept|Oct 2006
Research in Brief
Research in Brief
Continental Drift
In his latest work, an atlas of North American English, Penn sociolinguist Bill Labov shows that we are talking more differently from one another.