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Published by Penn Medicine News. Written by Tristan Epps Helping Create New Memories: How One Penn Researcher is Helping us Better Understand the Brain Through Epigenetics Growing up in Center City Philadelphia Erica Korb, PhD, an…
Researchers find that restoring CDKL5 gene activity reverses many disease signs in young adult mice October 15, 2021 Written by Brandon Lausch, Senior News Director, Penn Medicine News PHILADELPHIA— A devastating genetic disease called CDKL5 deficiency…
Penn Medicine is one of 30 sites chosen by the National Institutes of Health as part of newly launched Impact of Genomic Variation on Function consortium Written By Lauren Ingeno, Senior Medical Communications Officer, Penn…
Written by Frank Otto, Senior Medical Communications Officer, Penn Medicine Communications PHILADELPHIA— New “maps” of hundreds of thousands of cells related to inflammatory bowel disease shed greater light on their effects on intestinal tissues through…
Written by Sophie Kluthe, Senior Scientific Writer, Penn Medicine Communications PHILADELPHIA— The Pew Charitable Trusts named Kellie A. Jurado, PhD, Presidential Assistant Professor of Microbiology, and Colin Conine, PhD, an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, both in the Perelman…
Written by Sophie Kluthe, Senior Scientific Writer, Penn Medicine Communications PHILADELPHIA— A gene called GAS2 plays a key role in normal hearing, and its absence causes severe hearing loss, according to a study led by researchers in…
Written by Melissa Moody, Senior Scientific Writer, Penn Medicine Communications PHILADELPHIA – Popular accounts of the human genome often depict it as a long string of DNA base pairs, but in reality the genome is…
Penn Medicine News – Written by Melissa Moody A team of researchers led by Li-San Wang, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been…
by Melissa Moody, Senior Science Communications Officer New data suggest statins as a potentially helpful class of drugs to fight COVID-19, and pointing to that study, two researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at…
by Aubrey Whelan, Justine McDaniel, Jason Laughlin and Maddie Hanna. Elizabeth Bhoj and her husband sought to help people affected by tear gas or injuries – “It’s hard seeing people trying to find a voice who have had theirs…