Packaging-free design quadruples microbatteries’ energy density
New research has shown a way to build and package microbatteries that maximizes energy density even at the smallest sizes.
New cell therapy shows potential against solid tumors with KRAS mutations
A new technology for cellular immunotherapy showed promising anti-tumor activity in the lab against hard-to-treat cancers driven by the once-considered “undruggable” KRAS mutation.
These obese mice lost weight by ‘sweating’ their fat, Penn team finds
The animals lost weight despite eating more. But would it work in humans?
Beaker List: Top entrepreneurial life science professors @ Penn
IOS, a life science innovation blog by Alix Ventures, featured the top entrepreneurial life science professors at Penn. The list contained some of the top innovators at Penn, including Drs. Carl June
New engineering approaches to address unmet oral health needs
With a new NIH training grant, awards, and new faculty and publications, the recently launched Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry is leveraging technological advancements to improve oral heal
Philadelphia-area VC funding smashes annual record just halfway through 2021
Philadelphia-area firms raised $3.1 billion in venture capital funding during the first half of 2021, already smashing an annual record set two years ago.
Low-cost Electrochemical Advanced Diagnostic COVID test research published in PNAS
Latest research by Penn Medicine's Cesar de la Fuente, PhD, on the low cost COVID test in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
Latest ‘organ-on-a-chip’ is a new way to study cancer-related muscle wasting
Studying drug effects on human muscles just got easier thanks to a new “muscle-on-a-chip,” developed by a team of researchers from Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Inha University
New microfluidic device delivers mRNA nanoparticles a hundred times faster
With a ‘liquid assembly line,’ Penn researchers have produced mRNA-delivering-nanoparticles significantly faster than standard microfluidic technologies.