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Why large groups of people often come to the same conclusionsJanuary 14, 2021 at 11:41 AM  Tags: Psychology, Decision Making, Amazon, Facebook, Social Media, Personality, Innovation, Collaboration, University of Pennsylvania, Debate, Cooperation, Nature Communications, Annenberg School for Communication, Damon Centola, Douglas Guilbeault, Network Dynamics Group NDG 125 people like this. Like How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist: What the Experts RecommendJanuary 13, 2021 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Psychology, Google, Politics, College, Current Affairs, Reddit, University of Pennsylvania, Vox, Bill Nye, Daniel, Facebook Twitter, Pew Research, Josh Jones, University of California Irvine, Cass Sunstein, MIT Technology Review 118 people like this. Like How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist (and Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories in the First Place): What the Experts RecommendJanuary 13, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Psychology, Google, Politics, College, Current Affairs, Reddit, University of Pennsylvania, Vox, Bill Nye, Daniel, Facebook Twitter, Pew Research, Josh Jones, University of California Irvine, Cass Sunstein, MIT Technology Review 140 people like this. Like Community burden of COVID-19 linked to survival rates of hospitalized patientsDecember 22, 2020 at 6:59 PM High rates of COVID-19 in the county where a hospital is located appears to reduce survival rates among hospitalized patients with the virus, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and at UnitedHealth Group.Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, COVID 14 people like this. Like Study finds no significant change in preterm or stillbirth rates during COVID-19 pandemicDecember 7, 2020 at 11:16 PM Despite early reports suggesting a decline in preterm births during the COVID-19 pandemic period, an analysis by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found no change in preterm births or stillbirths at two Philadelphia hospitals in the first four months of the pandemic.Tags: Health, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Children s Hospital 26 people like this. Like Teledermatology improves access to care, reduces consult timeNovember 11, 2020 at 7:17 PM A new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Independence Blue Cross shows that when patients' primary care doctors were able to photograph areas of concern and share them with dermatologists, the response time for a consultation dropped from almost 84 days to under five hours.Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, Independence Blue Cross, Perelman School of Medicine 37 people like this. Like A 30-minute conversation may spread COVID-19 more easily than sharing a bedroom. Here's why quiet is a key virus-fighting strategy.November 3, 2020 at 2:17 PM Tags: Japan, Texas, Science, News, France, Berlin, Singapore, US, Trends, Getty Images, Mental Health, Public Health, Atlantic, Arizona, Linguistics, National Institutes of Health 60 people like this. Like Penn researchers awarded $5.4 million to find genetic risk markers for testicular cancerOctober 28, 2020 at 10:25 AM The international hunt to find more genetic risk markers for testicular cancer is expanding. A team of researchers led by Katherine L. Nathanson, MD, deputy director of the Abramson Cancer Center and the Pearl Basser Professor for BRCA-Related Research in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was recently awarded $5.4 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to continue the long-standing genomics work of the TEsticular CAncer Consortium (TECAC).Tags: Health, National Institutes of Health, University of Pennsylvania, Penn, Perelman School of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Katherine L Nathanson, BRCA Related Research 31 people like this. Like Impaired blood clot contraction predicts imminent postoperative thrombosisOctober 27, 2020 at 2:10 PM The co-authors are employees of the Protein-Cell Interactions Lab of Kazan Federal University (Natalia G. Evtugina, Alina D. Peshkova, and Lab Head Rustem I. Litvinov) in cooperation with Interregional Clinical Diagnostic Center, Kazan, Russia (Arseniy A. Pichugin) and University of Pennsylvania (John W. Weisel and Rustem I. Litvinov by his primary employment).Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, Natalia G Evtugina Alina D Peshkova, Rustem I Litvinov, Kazan Russia Arseniy A Pichugin, John W Weisel 22 people like this. Like Deep Science: Alzheimer’s screening, forest-mapping drones, machine learning in space, moreOctober 23, 2020 at 5:28 PM Research papers come out far too rapidly for anyone to read them all, especially in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practically every industry and company. This column aims to collect the most relevant recent discoveries and papers — particularly in but not limited to artificial intelligence — and explain why they matter.
This week, a startup that’s using UAV drones for mapping forests, a look at how machine learning can map social media networks and pre...Tags: Health, TC, Sweden, Congress, America, Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Portugal, Brazil, Machine Learning, Ibm, University of Pennsylvania, Computer Vision, Carnegie Mellon University, Penn, Don 39 people like this. Like $2 million gift helps create the Gutmann Leadership Scholars Program at Penn NursingOctober 22, 2020 at 9:37 PM University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and her husband, Michael Doyle, have a made a $2 million gift to the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Innovating for Life and Living Campaign, as part of the University's Power of Penn Campaign. The gift, which brings the couple's total giving to Penn to $4.5 million, will create the Gutmann Leadership Scholars Program at Penn Nursing.Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, Penn, Michael Doyle, Penn Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Amy Gutmann, University s Power of Penn Campaign 25 people like this. Like What stops people from changing their minds?October 20, 2020 at 5:00 AM  Tags: Psychology, Business, Politics, Activism, Relationships, Communication, Brain, Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Mind, Berger, Social Change, Wharton School, Jonah Berger 65 people like this. Like Researchers show the effectiveness of incorporating virtual driving assessment system into driver's licensing processOctober 6, 2020 at 2:03 AM Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center have demonstrated the feasibility of incorporating a virtual driving assessment system into the driver's licensing process in Ohio.Tags: Health, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Children s Hospital, Annenberg Public Policy Center 11 people like this. Like Why social media has changed the world — and how to fix itSeptember 30, 2020 at 3:46 AM  Tags: Psychology, Facebook, Europe, Books, Internet, California, Youtube, Russia, Los Angeles, Social Media, Society, Mit, Netflix, Innovation, Community, University of Pennsylvania 122 people like this. Like Researchers discover specific cellular pathway involved in lung tissue regenerationSeptember 28, 2020 at 7:52 PM Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a cellular pathway that can be targeted with a naturally occurring drug to stimulate lung tissue regeneration, which is necessary for recovery from multiple lung injuries.Tags: Health, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Children s Hospital 39 people like this. Like We're ignoring one of the most obvious ways to avoid spreading the coronavirus: stop talking so muchSeptember 12, 2020 at 9:45 AM Tags: Japan, Texas, Science, News, France, Berlin, US, Trends, Mental Health, Public Health, Atlantic, Arizona, Linguistics, National Institutes of Health, University of Pennsylvania, Anthony Fauci 64 people like this. Like 25 psychological tricks that will help you ace a job interviewSeptember 10, 2020 at 11:18 AM Tags: Psychology, Work, Jobs, Amit Kumar, Brown University, Careers, Trends, Strategy, Research, Canada, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Florida, Job Interview, Alan 107 people like this. Like New dual CAR T cell immunotherapy shows enhanced therapeutic potency to fight HIVAugust 31, 2020 at 9:12 PM A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, led by researchers Todd Allen, PhD, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and group leader at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, and Jim Riley, PhD, a professor of Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, describes a new Dual CAR T cell immunotherapy that can help fight HIV infection.Tags: Health, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Nature Medicine, Ragon Institute of MGH MIT, Todd Allen, Jim Riley 17 people like this. Like Experts Call For Independent Commission Separate From FDA To Review Coronavirus VaccinesAugust 30, 2020 at 11:23 PM  Tags: Health, UK, Cdc, White House, Massachusetts, US, Nas, Cnn, Harvard, Fda, University of Pennsylvania, Anthony Fauci, Nih, Oprah, Financial Times, Nyu 112 people like this. Like New criteria to differentiate between frontotemporal dementia and LATE diseaseAugust 24, 2020 at 8:56 PM Working with their colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers at the University of Kentucky have found that they can differentiate between subtypes of dementia inducing brain disease.Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, University of Kentucky 19 people like this. Like SARS-CoV-2 exposure five times more likely among Black and Hispanic pregnant womenJuly 29, 2020 at 7:52 PM Black and Hispanic pregnant women in Philadelphia are five times as likely as white and Asian women to have been exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to a new study led by Scott Hensley, PhD, an associate professor of Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Karen Marie Puopolo, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Pediatrics and neonatologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The study was published today in Science Immunology.Tags: Health, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Scott Hensley, Karen Marie Puopolo 34 people like this. Like International research collaboration to investigate the role of immune system in healthJuly 13, 2020 at 10:50 PM An international research collaboration to pioneer the field of immuno-cardiology and investigate ways to harness the power of the immune system to improve recovery from heart attacks will be led at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania by Jonathan Epstein, MD, executive vice dean, chief scientific officer and the William Wikoff Smith Professor of Cardiovascular Research.Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Jonathan Epstein, William Wikoff Smith 32 people like this. Like Summer may decide fate of leading shots in coronavirus vaccine raceJune 28, 2020 at 1:48 PM People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works — and maybe offer a reality check.
Already British and Chinese researchers are chasing the coronavirus beyond their borders, testing potential vaccines in Brazil and the United Arab Emirates because there are too few new infections at home to get clear answers.
The U.S. is set to open the largest trials — 30,00...Tags: Health, Business, England, Science, News, Senate, Sport, Britain, Soccer, South Africa, House, Oxford, United Arab Emirates, Food And Drug Administration, Brazil, World Health Organization 44 people like this. Like Study identifies new gene variants tied to type-2 diabetesJune 23, 2020 at 3:38 PM After examining the genes of more than 200,000 people all over the world who have type-2 diabetes, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Veterans Health Administration's Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center found hundreds of genetic variants never before linked to the disease.Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Veterans Health Administration 49 people like this. Like Penn’s CEET receives $8 million grant for environmental health researchJune 17, 2020 at 8:50 PM The Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania received an $8 million grant, to be distributed over the next five years, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a renewal of its P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Center grant.Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, Penn, Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Center 15 people like this. Like R&D Roundup: ‘Twisted light’ lasers, prosthetic vision advances and robot-trained dogsMay 24, 2020 at 11:15 AM I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world of tech and startups.
In this edition: a new type of laser emitter that uses metamaterials, robot-trained dogs, a breakthrough in neurological research that may advance prosthetic vision and other cutting-edge technology.
Twisted laser-starters
We think of lasers as going “straight” because that’s ...Tags: Health, Startups, TC, Science, Electronics, Tech, University of Pennsylvania, Biotech, Robotics, Laser, Optics, University of the Witwatersrand, Prosthesis, Market Analysis, Extra Crunch, R&D Roundup 20 people like this. Like Dogs Are Being Trained to Sniff Out Coronavirus CasesMay 22, 2020 at 5:54 PM  Tags: Health, Florida, Washington Post, Pets, University of Pennsylvania, Otto, TheStarryEye Astrologer, Pawpourri, Coronavirus, Working Dog Center, Cynthia M Otto, Penn 's School of Veterinary Medicine 111 people like this. Like 'Senolytic' therapy blunts liver tumor progression in animal modelsMay 20, 2020 at 1:49 PM "Senotherapy," a treatment that uses small molecule drugs to target "senescent" cells, or those cells that no longer undergo cell division, blunts liver tumor progression in animal models according to new research from a team led by Celeste Simon, Ph.D., a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute.Tags: Health, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Developmental Biology, Celeste Simon 31 people like this. Like "Ordinary speech can emit small respiratory droplets that linger in the air for at least eight minutes and potentially much longer..."May 14, 2020 at 7:53 AM "... according to a study published Wednesday that could help explain why infections of the coronavirus so often cluster in nursing homes, households, conferences, cruise ships and other confined spaces with limited air circulation. The report, from researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the University of Pennsylvania, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal. It is based on an experiment that u...Tags: Health, Games, Lisa Kudrow, Law, Friends, Bill Murray, University of Pennsylvania, Snl, Kissing, Speaking, National Academy of Sciences, WaPo, Gilda Radner, Joel Achenbach, Saliva, Ann Althouse 43 people like this. Like Don't worry about making a mistake. It's how we learn.May 13, 2020 at 1:35 PM  Tags: Psychology, Facebook, Learning, Education, Neuroscience, Intelligence, Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Vaccines, Kahn, Derek, Don, Lynn, Homo, Louis Pasteur, Christopher Lynn 112 people like this. Like |
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