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Research + Innovation

Scientists Unlock Frogs’ Antibacterial Secrets to Combat Superbugs

Frogs have thrived for hundreds of millions of years, spreading across virtually every corner of the earth, from tropical jungles to subarctic forests. Throughout their … Read More ›

Posted on March 25, 2025March 18, 2025
Research + Innovation, Students

Combining AI and Art-making for Youth Well-being

After gaining experience as a qualitative researcher in public health, Eileen Feng mused about how she might take that knowledge and apply it to product … Read More ›

Posted on March 7, 2025June 2, 2025
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Research + Innovation

How the Media Distorts Perceptions on Chronic Disease Risks

Silent illnesses, or chronic diseases, contribute to 70% of deaths in the US annually and six in ten Americans suffer from at least one chronic … Read More ›

Posted on February 28, 2025February 19, 2025
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Research + Innovation

Breaking the Pattern: How Disorder Toughens Materials

Cut open a bone and you’ll see a subtly disordered structure. Tiny beams, called trabeculae, connect to one another in irregular patterns, distributing stress and … Read More ›

Posted on February 17, 2025February 18, 2025
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Research + Innovation

Borrowing Nature’s Blueprint: How Scientists Replicated Bone Marrow

Hidden within our bones, marrow sustains life by producing billions of blood cells daily, from oxygen-carrying red cells to immune-boosting white cells. This vital function … Read More ›

Posted on January 30, 2025January 31, 2025
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Research + Innovation, Students

Spaces That Spark Discovery: A Look Inside One uCity Square

The importance of proper laboratory space is hard to understate. In the earliest labs, in places like ancient Egypt, alchemists, metallurgists and pharmacists might have … Read More ›

Posted on January 14, 2025February 19, 2025
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Research + Innovation

A New Era in Genetic Engineering: Breakthroughs in Gene Editing and Expression Control with mvGPT

Influential inventions often combine existing tools in new ways. The iPhone, for instance, amalgamated the telephone, web browser and camera, among many other devices. The … Read More ›

Posted on January 8, 2025January 8, 2025
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Research + Innovation

Revolutionizing Data Centers: Penn Engineers’ Breakthrough in Photonic Switching

Every second, terabytes of data — the equivalent of downloading thousands upon thousands of movies at once — travel around the world as light in … Read More ›

Posted on January 7, 2025June 2, 2025
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Research + Innovation

Nature’s Instructions: How Fungi Make a Key Medicinal Molecule

For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a goldmine for medicines. They’ve provided … Read More ›

Posted on December 18, 2024December 17, 2024
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Research + Innovation

Unlocking the Brain: Peptide-Guided Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA to Neurons

Penn Engineers have modified lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) — the revolutionary technology behind the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines — to not only cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) … Read More ›

Posted on December 17, 2024December 16, 2024

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