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Penn’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology has added the newest cutting-edge technology to its collection of already impressive microscopes: The Krios G3i, a cryogenic electron microscope that will allow researchers to look at cells, proteins, and engineered nanoparticles like never before. The trick is to keep them frozen in time, holding them in their natural environment while bombarding them with ultrafast, ultrahot subatomic particles.

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Erika H. James has been named dean of the Wharton School, effective July 1. She is currently dean of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. In making the announcement, President Amy Gutmann said James is “a passionate and visible champion of the power of business and business education to positively transform communities locally, nationally, and globally. She is exceptionally well prepared to lead Wharton into the next exciting chapter of its storied history.”

Erika H. James named dean of Penn’s Wharton School | Penn Today The dean of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University will begin her new position as dean of the Wharton School effective July 1.

A machine-learning approach has spotted powerful new types of antibiotic from a pool of more than 100 million molecules, including one that works against bacterial strains considered untreatable. This is the first time artificial intelligence has identified completely new kinds of antibiotic from scratch, without relying on any previous human assumptions.

Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI Machine learning spots molecules that work even against ‘untreatable’ strains of bacteria.

In 2005, research from the Shore Health System of Maryland ICU showed that the homeopathic remedy, Kali bichromicum (Kali-bi) reduced excessive mucus in seriously ill patients, lessened their time on ventilators, resulted in less respiratory complications, and shortened their stay in the ICU.
In contrast, those in the control group who had not received the remedy took considerably longer to recover, with some returning to the ventilator after extubation because they struggled to breath – something that had not been a problem for the homeopathic group. As a result, the hospital added the Kali-bi to their pharmacy.

Influence of potassium dichromate on tracheal secretions in critically ill patients. - PubMed - NCBI Chest. 2005 Mar;127(3):936-41. Clinical Trial; Randomized Controlled Trial