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The Wonders of Precision Medicine Depend on Superior Information Systems

Discover what a future with precision medicine looks like at Penn Medicine.

Long-lived antitumor T cells from pluripotent stem cells

Current approaches to adoptive T cell therapy are limited by the difficulty of obtaining sufficient numbers of T cells against targeted antigens with useful in vivo characteristics. Theoretically, this limitation could be overcome by using induced plur...

Social Support of Marriage May Improve Cancer Survival

It may largely be the emotional support of marriage, rather than any economic advantages, that produces health benefits.

Kathy’s Cancer Story and the Komen Connection

Stage 3 invasive breast cancer survivor Kathy tells what her cancer journey was like and what has helped her move forward.

Dual Action of MDA-5 in Tumor Killing and Immune Modulation

Melanoma differentiation–associated gene 5 (MDA-5, IFIH1), a cytosolic innate pattern recognition receptor, functions as a first line of defense against viral infection by sensing double-stranded RNA. Ectopic expression of MDA-5 has been shown to ind...