THE CAMB STUDENT NEWSLETTER

As human beings, we all grapple with the soul-searching question of what makes life meaningful. In his memoir When Breath Becomes Air,...

The newest CAMB students were welcomed with gusto both from the administration and upperclassmen. A variety of orientation activities...

Astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle...

As early as the 19th century, Walther Flemming and other biologists knew that a complex of genetic material and proteins—what we now...

An inclusive and diverse community is the cornerstone for an adaptable, creative, and sustainable academic center. The Penn community...

When was the last time that you went to the CAMB office? If you can run a PCR faster than you can recall your last visit, it’s time to...

The University of Pennsylvania is a leader in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell research and in translating basic research findings...

How do you transition from being a graduate student sitting in the audience of a lecture hall to becoming a professor presenting at the...

The Philadelphia Science Festival is a week-long event hosted by the Franklin Institute that focuses on engaging the public in science...

The first confirmed Zika virus (ZIKV) infections in Brazil were promulgated by the Pan American Health Organization in May 2015. By the...

One of the first successful tissue replacement therapies was artificial skin, developed by Drs. Ioannis Yannas and John Burke in 1979....

The immune system possesses the essential ability to detect and destroy abnormal cells, such as cancer cells. Recently, the critical...

There is a noticeable trend in recent times of science graduates pursuing alternative careers in science, to an extent where one might...

When I came to graduate school, I was excited to learn about both scientific research and science teaching. I specifically chose my...

Crafting a non-academic career path for a typical CAMB graduate student can be a complex balancing act of juggling never-ending hours of...

Amy DeMicco and Matthew Harms—CB and DSRB alumni, respectively—both work for AstraZeneca in Sweden. Amy and Matthew bring interesting...

Animal models of disease are crucial to understanding disease progression in humans. In a recent article published in the American...

How did life first appear on Earth? What can the origin of life tell us about life’s meaning? In their new book “A Brief History of...

Aleksandra (Leksa) Nall was a GGR student in Amita Sehgal’s lab, where she used small molecules to study sleep regulation in Drosophila. ...

Matthew Good, Ph.D., is a recently appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Development Biology at the Perelman School...

The Cell and Molecular Biology (CAMB) program spans a daunting breadth of biological inquiry, with students and investigators...