Tag: Responsible Innovation

New Video Dataset to Advance AI for Health Care

News / December 16, 2025

Penn’s new Observer platform provides anonymized video, audio and clinical data from real medical encounters, giving researchers an unprecedented tool for studying how care happens and training AI medical systems.

A blurred view of a primary care clinic room, with colorful stick figure outlines representing the doctor and patients.

University of Pennsylvania and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Sign a Cooperative AI Advising Agreement

News / October 31, 2025

Penn and Governor Josh Shapiro’s Office of Administration are partnering to shape the future of artificial intelligence in Pennsylvania. Through a new agreement, experts from Penn Engineering and across the University will advise the Commonwealth on AI strategy, risk and governance to support responsible innovation.

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From Soft to Solid: How a Coral Stiffens Its Skeleton on Demand

News / October 29, 2025

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its flexible arms stiffen, like Marvel’s Mr. Fantastic warding off a foe. Now, Penn Engineers have discovered the mechanism underlying this astonishing ability, one that could advance fields as varied as...

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Nanoparticle Blueprints Reveal Path to Smarter Medicines

News / October 23, 2025

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the delivery vehicles of modern medicine, carrying cancer drugs, gene therapies and vaccines into cells. Until recently, many scientists assumed that all LNPs followed more or less the same blueprint, like a fleet of trucks built from the same design Now, in Nature Biotechnology, researchers from...

A trio of researchers pose in a lab with 3D printed plastic models of nanoparticles.

AI at the Eyelid: Glasses That Track Health Through Your Blinks

News / October 1, 2025

Penn researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI-powered device that turns ordinary glasses into a smart, energy-efficient health monitor by watching you blink.

A young man wears a pair of glasses with a device attached to one arm of the glasses.

Penn Engineers Unveil Generative AI Model that Designs New Antibiotics

News / September 2, 2025

Uniting expertise in AI design and antibiotic discovery, two Penn labs have created a generative model that could redefine drug development.

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AI Uncovers New Antibiotics in Ancient Microbes

News / August 12, 2025

They’ve survived for billions of years in boiling acid, deep-sea vents and salt flats. Now, some of Earth’s oldest life forms — microbes called Archaea — are offering a new weapon in the fight against one of today’s most urgent health threats: antibiotic resistance.In a new study published in Nature...

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Sustainable Computing: Can AI Be Energy Efficient?

News / August 8, 2025

As AI advances at breakneck speed, experts at Penn are urgently trying to see if AI can be efficient.

Professor Benjamin Lee, at left, speaks in a recent AI infrastructure panel about the energy demands of AI.

Centuries After Discovery, Red Blood Cells Still Hold Surprises

News / August 6, 2025

Red blood cells, long thought to be passive bystanders in the formation of blood clots, actually play an active role in helping clots contract, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. “This discovery reshapes how we understand one of the body’s most vital processes,” says...