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First Step Towards Electronic DNA Sequencing: Translocation Through Graphene Nanopores
PHILADELPHIA –- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules.
Collaboration Leads to Simpler Method for Building Varieties of Nanocrystal Superlattices
PHILADELPHIA –- Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.
Penn Is Among Top Medium-Sized Universities Contributing Graduates to Teach For America
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania ranks fourth in medium-sized colleges and universities in the number of 2010 graduates who are joining Teach For America. The 43 recent Penn graduates are committing the next two years to teach in underserved urban and rural public schools and will begin teaching in schools across the country in the fall.
Penn Researchers Discover New Role for Master Regulator in Cell Metabolism, Response to Stress
AMP-activated protein kinase, or AMPK, is a master regulator protein of metabolism that is conserved from yeast to humans. When a cell is low on fuel, AMPK shuts down processes that use energy and turns on processes that produce energy.
Seven in School of Veterinary Medicine Honored With Teaching Awards
Seven faculty members in the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine are recipients of 2010 teaching awards.
East Coast Exclusive from China: "Secrets of the Silk Road"
With graceful eyelashes, long flaxen hair and serene expression, the "Beauty of Xiaohe" seems to have just softly fallen to sleep-yet she last closed her eyes nearly 4,000 years ago. She was found, and excavated, in 2003, one of hundreds of spectacularly preserved mummies buried in the harsh desert sands of the vast Tarim Basin, in the Far Western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonom
Fouls Go Left: Soccer Referees May Be Biased Based on Play’s Direction of Motion
Soccer referees may have an unconscious bias towards calling fouls based on a play’s direction of motion, according to a new study.
University of Pennsylvania Professor Receives ICA Fellows Book Award
The International Communication Association (ICA), an esteemed academic association for scholars of human and mediated communication, today announced that Elihu Katz 's 1992 book (with Daniel Dayan of the French National Center for Scientific Research), Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
Penn Geneticist Named 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
The Pew Charitable Trusts named Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, as a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
Marcella Durand Named 2010-2011 Fellow at Penn’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
PHILADELPHIA -– Marcella Durand has been named the 2010-2011 CPCW Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.