Reversing Obesity: Cytokine Treatment Causes Mice to Lose Weight by “Sweating” Fat
A seemingly unremarkable observation — greasy hair — showed Penn researchers how the immune system could be targeted to reverse obesity Treating obese mice with…
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A seemingly unremarkable observation — greasy hair — showed Penn researchers how the immune system could be targeted to reverse obesity Treating obese mice with…
Want to promote your new product or trigger a shift in thinking? Steer clear of the influencers. Imagine you’re a CEO who wants to promote…
Using 27 years of detailed data on hyena social interactions, a team led by Penn biologists nailed down a pattern of social network inheritance and…
Year after year, the explosive growth of computing power relies on manufacturers’ ability to fit more and more components into the same amount of space…
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous, powering smartphones, tablets, laptops and, increasingly, electric vehicles. Making these batteries lighter, smaller, cheaper and able to charge faster, all…
Natural wood remains a ubiquitous building material because of its high strength-to-density ratio; trees are strong enough to grow hundreds of feet tall but remain…
Thanks to researchers in different fields who put in nearly two decades of past work on mRNA vaccine technology, people around the world are being…
Corals that withstood a severe bleaching event and were transplanted to a different reef maintained their resilient qualities, according to a new study led by…
In a proof-of-concept study led by the School of Veterinary Medicine, dogs identified positive samples with 96% accuracy. Many long for a return to a…
A new Penn Medicine study shows how anti-androgen drugs disrupt key receptors required for viral invasion of cells. Hormone drugs that reduce androgen levels may…
With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi lived 82 million years ago, predating its relative, Triceratops. Researchers including Peter Dodson, of the School…
Some failed to detect users were over the legal driving limit more than half the time, Penn medicine research finds. Alcohol-impaired driving kills 29 people…
Promising candidates include widely used transplant-rejection drug cyclosporine. A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has…
New research provides insights into the process of diffusion in living systems, with implications from novel active coatings to understanding how pathogens are cleared from…
A collaborative team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists provide hybrid perovskite nanoparticles that are high-efficiency light emitters by using a comprehensive defect-suppression strategy. New…
In contrast to prior hypotheses, this experiment shows that people are not born with category systems already in their brains. Imagine you gave the exact…
Researchers from the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and the University of Pennsylvania identify ultra-fast gas flows through atomic-scale apertures in 2D…
A chain reaction led by cells lining the intestines tips the immune system off to the presence of the parasite Cryptosporidium, according to a study…