Combined blood markers correctly detect early pancreatic cancer in human cancer cells A newly identified biomarker panel could pave the way to earlier detection and better treatment for panc... Read more
Penn researchers help break ground on method to transform cells Doctors have found a way to manipulate wounds to heal as regenerated skin rather than scar tissue. The method involves transfo... Read more
Clinical Study Shows Fluorescent Dye Can Localize Tumors During Surgery in Real-time An experimental cancer imaging tool that makes tumors glow brightly during surgery has shown promi... Read more
fMRI Spots More Lies in First Controlled Comparison of the Two Technologies When it comes to lying, our brains are much more likely to give us away than sweaty palms or spikes in heart rate,... Read more
Surprisingly rapid regrowth of unused brain connections after decades of near blindness Since 2007, clinical trials using gene therapy have resulted in often-dramatic sight restoration for d... Read more
JAMA Viewpoint Characterizes Current Model for Treating Mentally Ill as “Ethically Unacceptable and Financially Costly” As the United States population has doubled since 1955, th... Read more
An experimental therapy has brought prolonged remissions to a high proportion of patients who were facing death from advanced leukemia after standard treatments had failed, researchers are r... Read more
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic. Specifically, investigators in the Gene... Read more
The elusive goal of mapping thoughts in the human brain ‘Neural Fingerprints’ of Memory Associations Decoded Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that hu... Read more