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Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. (Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)

Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19

Putting some of their regular research projects on the back burner, researchers around Penn are digging into unknowns about the novel coronavirus from their deep and varied perspectives.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Supporting agriculture and a safe food supply
cows in a field at new bolton center

In pre-Covid-19 times, the Marshak Dairy at Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center was a place for teaching as well as research. Now an essential crew of workers remain to care for the cows, as other veterinarians in the School continue to care for livestock around the region. (Credit: Penn Vet)

Supporting agriculture and a safe food supply

Essential workers in the School of Veterinary Medicine are caring for livestock, keeping track of disease, ensuring product consistency, and communicating with farmers to ensure that farms can continue providing a reliable food supply for the community.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Health care education in a virtual world
Screenshot of veterinary online course with picture of a cat

Health care education in a virtual world

For future health care providers, moving education online has proved especially challenging. With ingenuity and creativity, faculty are helping them continue gaining the skills they’ll need.

Katherine Unger Baillie

‘Disease knows no borders’
Lazaretto quarantine hospital

‘Disease knows no borders’

From the history of science to medical anthropology, governance, and economics, Penn experts look at the history of global health from different perspectives to see what the future may hold.

Kristina Linnea García

Penn labs get creative to stay productive, connected
thomas mallouk lab with researcher

Penn labs get creative to stay productive, connected

In the face of a pandemic that has shuttered most physical laboratories across campus, researchers have shifted gears, maintaining work and social ties through grant- and manuscript-writing, virtual journal clubs, online coffee breaks, and more.

Michele W. Berger

Tailoring treatment for triple-negative breast cancer
Fluorescent microscopic image shows mammary gland cells

Researchers from Penn Vet found that that the protein Elf5 in mammary tumors plays a role in the disease’s progression and spread. Cells with Elf5 are noted in green above. (Image: Snahlata Singh and Rumela Chakrabarti)

 

 

Tailoring treatment for triple-negative breast cancer

Research led by the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Rumela Chakrabarti identified a molecular pathway responsible for the disease’s progression and spread.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Researchers, schools answer the call for personal protective equipment and critical supplies
researchers in the singh nano labs

Postdoctoral researcher Sam Nicaise, center, working on newly-made nanocardboard plates. Bargatin and his team have spent years creating this and other ultralight materials, using the state-of-the-art nanofabrication and characterization equipment inside the Singh Center.

Researchers, schools answer the call for personal protective equipment and critical supplies

To help in the ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus, groups across campus are donating what they can, from masks and gloves to ventilators.

Erica K. Brockmeier

New feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors
Illustration showing three feathered dinosaurs in and near a stream with other large dinosaurs nearby

Dineobellator notohesperus is the name of a newly discovered species of dinosaur, that lived near the end of the reign of dinosaurs (Image: Sergey Krasovskiy)

New feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors

Dineobellator notohesperus lived 67 million years ago. Steven Jasinski, who recently earned his doctorate from the School of Arts and Sciences working with Peter Dodson, also of the School of Veterinary Medicine, led the effort to describe the find.

Katherine Unger Baillie

A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility
Side-by-side microscopic images of cell spindle during meiosis. Left image shows green with pink in the middle, right shows green with pink spots throughout.

The activity of the Skp1 protein is crucial for sperm formation, Penn Vet scientists found. In a dividing sperm precursor cell, chromosomes (in purple) normally align in the middle, as shown on the left. But in cells lacking Skp1, as shown on the right, chromosomes fail to align and are instead distributed chaotically around the cell. (Image: Courtesy of the Wang laboratory)

A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility

The protein, SKP1, drives a key transition step in male meiosis, the type of cell division process that results in sperm, School of Veterinary Medicine researchers found.

Katherine Unger Baillie