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Study shows promise for iNKT cell platform to treat cancer
Researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine have shown that invariant natural killer T cells from a healthy donor can persist in MHC-mismatched canines, demonstrating a reliable platform to inform human clinical trials.
Who, What, Why: Juliet Glazer and contemporary violinmaking
The fifth-year Ph.D. student in anthropology and ethnomusicology examines the aesthetics, sound, and valuation of instrument-making in the U.S. and Italy.
PURM students spent the summer researching the neurobiology of stress resilience in the lab of Seema Bhatnagar, anesthesiology and critical care professor in the Perelman School of Medicine.
Factors linked to racial disparities in chronic pain after injury
Researchers at the School of Nursing have shown that differences in the characteristics of acute injuries are associated with racial disparities in chronic pain.
How the hippocampus distinguishes true and false memories
Researchers in the School of Arts & Sciences have shown for the first time that electrical signals in the hippocampus differ immediately before recollection of true and false memories.
New research from Abigail Blyler and Martin Seligman at the Positive Psychology Center found that the language model can produce accurate personal narratives from stream-of-consciousness data.
Kathy D. Morrison, faculty lead for the Environmental Innovations Initiative; Andrew M. Hoffman, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine; Antonia M. Villarruel, dean of the School of Nursing; Farah Hussain, representing the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine; Sara S. Bachman, dean of School of Social Policy and Practice; Mark Wolff, dean of the School of Dental Medicine; and Julian Fisher, director of Oral and Planetary Health Policies in Penn Dental, sit onstage for a Climate Week discussion on climate and health.
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Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields
Deans and leaders from the schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing, and Social Policy & Practice discussed climate and health at a Climate Week event.
Philosophy professor Sukaina Hirji has expanded her work from Aristotle and the history of philosophy to contemporary issues of love and sex, oppression, and anger.
A positive worldview is less associated with privilege than expected
A new study from The Primals Project shows that counter to public perception, positive beliefs about the world are a poor indicator of a person’s background.
