Anne Cappola and Susan Mandel of the Perelman School of Medicine are quoted about testing for thyroid cancer.
Sharon Thompson-Schill of the School of Arts and Sciences is cited for research on cognitive control.
Robert Vonderheide, Anil Rustgi, Andrew Rhim and M. Celeste Simon of the Perelman School of Medicine have been awarded grants to study pancreatic cancer.
Increasing the number of hours of sleep adolescents get each night may reduce the prevalence of adolescent obesity, according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
A research team including members of the Department of Bioengineering in the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has discovered that drug intervention to reduce intercellular signaling between astrocytes following traumatic brain injury reduces cognitive deficits and damage.
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania has shown that children as young as 2 understand basic grammar rules when they first learn to speak and are not simply imitating adults.
A Penn study about the connection between weight loss competitions and money is cited.
William Labov and doctoral candidate Josef Fruehwald of the School of Arts and Sciences are featured for their research on the evolution of the Philadelphia accent.
Frances Jensen of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on President Obama’s announcement of the BRAIN Initiative.
Charnita Zeigler-Johnson of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on studying how baldness may be a sign of prostate cancer risk in African-American men.
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