The Wistar Institute and the Philadelphia Zoo employ different preventative approaches to improve the health of humans and animals around the world. The Zoo uses conservation and education while Wistar uses biomedical research in vaccines and infectious disease to achieve the One Health goal set by the Center for Disease Control.
Wistar’s Women & Science program hosted a discussion on the effects nutrition can have on gene regulation, with guest speaker Kathryn Wellen, Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Wistar scientists created a new synthetic DNA vaccine for Mayaro Virus; study showed that combining BRAF inhibitors with T cell therapy may be beneficial for patients that are resistant to treatment; newly discovered mechanism links the tumor-suppressive and tumor-promoting effects of cellular senescence.
