Muscle Biology @ Penn Medicine
Cure for Muscular Dystrophy an RNA Splice Away? | Researchers are looking at utrophin, a protein that could be stimulated in muscular dystrophy patients to take the place of their damaged dystrophin. >>Article in the Philadelphia CityPaper Tejvir Khurana, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology, Catherine Moorwood, PhD, and Gabriel Willmann, PhD, are featured. | 
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Genetics & Genetic Disorders @ Penn Medicine
Cracking the Code of 'Junk' DNA | The lifelong work of a Penn geneticist studying transposable elements, self-replicating genetic sequences that comprise a significant proportion of so-called 'junk' DNA, was recently recognized with the honor of the American Society of Human Genetics Allan Award. >>Article in the Philadelphia Inquirer Haig H. Kazazian, Jr., MD, Seymour Gray Professor of Molecular Medicine in Genetics, is profiled. | 
| | Gene Therapy to Cure Blindness | A husband-and-wife team develop an experimental genetic treatment for an inherited form of blindness. >>Article in Smithsonian
>>Article in the Boston Globe Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Senior Investigator at the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology at the Scheie Eye Institute, and Albert M. Maguire, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, are profiled. | 
| | Seeking Cures for 'Second Skeleton' Genetic Disorder | Research on the rare bone disease FOP is described through the life of eight-year-old patient, Justin Henke, of Middletown, Delaware. >>Audio and article from NPR’s Weekend America
>>Article in The Scientist
>>Article from UPI News Service Frederick Kaplan, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Eileen M. Shore, PhD, Genetics & Orthopaedics, are featured. |  |
Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism @ Penn Medicine
Discovering Molecular Connections |  | Investigators discovered a key molecular partnership that coordinates body rhythms and metabolism. >>Article in the Philadelphia Inquirer
>>Article from UPI News Service Mitch Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, is featured. |
Immunology @ Penn Medicine
Engineered Killer T-Cell Recognizes HIV's Molecular Disguises | Engineered T cells can recognize HIV-1 strains that have evaded the immune system and offer hope for patients with chronic infection who fail to respond to antiretroviral regimens. >>Article in New Scientist
>>Article from BBC News
>>Article from Reuters
>>Article in POZ James Riley, PhD, Research Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Angel Varela-Rohena, PhD, and Carl June, MD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are featured. |  | | Update: New AIDS Approach Disrupts Patient's DNA | Penn will start human testing of a new approach to treat HIV, based on the ability to make a patient's T-cells permanently resistant to infection by CCR5-specific strains of HIV. >>Article from Reuters news service
>>Article in WIRED Science Carl June, MD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is featured. | 
| | Immune Cells Shrink Tumors in Mice | Scientists found that certain tumors in mice have shrunk or disappeared after the animals were injected with genetically engineered immune system cells that target a protein found in certain human cancers. >>Article in U.S.News & World Report Carl June, MD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is featured. |  |
Neuroscience @ Penn Medicine
Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories |  | Researchers have shown for the first time how cellular changes in the sleeping brain promote the formation of memories. >>Article from UPI News Service Marcos Frank, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience is featured. | | Thought-Controlled Artificial Limbs | 
| A biological interface could link a patient's nervous system to an artificial limb one day. >>Slideshow from MSN.com The slideshow features research of Douglas H. Smith, MD, director of the Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair. | | Parkinson's Disease and Manganese Poisoning |  | Researchers determined that the PARK9 protein can protect cells from manganese poisoning, which is an environmental risk factor for a Parkinson’s disease-like syndrome. >>Article from UPI News Service Research by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, is the focus of the story. | |
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