University of Pennsylvania Department of Bioengineering
Each spring, the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania gives out awards of special recognition to honor exceptional work by undergraduate and graduate students. The Department of Bioengineering is proud to announce the following awards given to students in the Class of 2020. Bioengineering Professor and Chair Ravi Radhakrishnan says, …
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Every cell in your body has a copy of your genome, tightly coiled and packed into its nucleus. Since every copy is effectively identical, the difference between cell types and their biological functions comes down to which, how and when the individual genes in the genome are expressed, or translated into proteins. Scientists are increasingly …
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The vast majority of genetic mutations that are associated with disease occur at sites in the genome that aren’t genes. These sequences of DNA don’t code for proteins themselves, but provide an additional layer of instructions that determine if and when particular genes are expressed. Researchers are only beginning to understand how the non-coding regions …
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One of the newest faculty in Penn’s Department of Bioengineering has hit the ground running — so much that her lab’s work is getting noticed by some of the discipline’s most prestigious journals. Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, PhD, who joined the BE faculty in 2014, was recently one of three scientists featured in a Q&A in Cell Stem Cell dedicated …
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