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Celebrating five years of working dogs at Penn
Penn Working Dog Center

Ammo, a 7-month-old Belgian Malinois, works the rubble pile at the Working Dog Center on the Pennovation Works campus. Trainers and volunteers hide amidst the debris to refine dogs’ ability to detect the scent of a concealed person.

Celebrating five years of working dogs at Penn

The Working Dog Center began with just a few puppies, and now, five years later, has trained some of the best noses in the business. Canine graduates have gone on to police work, search and rescue, and explosives, narcotics, and diabetes detection.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Uncovering a way for pro-B cells to change trajectory
Rendering of T cells.

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Uncovering a way for pro-B cells to change trajectory

Researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine have found that YY1 knockout pro-B cells can generate T lineage cells helping B cells produce antibodies.
Understanding the immune response to a persistent pathogen
Microscopic view of toxoplasma gondii cells.

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Understanding the immune response to a persistent pathogen

Penn Vet researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous system.

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