Rita Giordano

Some of Phillip Diaz's ashes, along with the cremated remains or DNA of over 200 other departed souls, will journey into space.

Penn Vet researchers work to better understand and help treat hereditary eye-related diseases in dogs.

Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus type 2 is a terrible way for any animal to die, especially creatures as gentle as these. Highly contagious and lethal, it threatens wild and domestic rabbits. First detected in the United States in 2020, it has rapidly spread throughout the western states, becoming endemic as far as South Dakota, Kansas, and Texas. Two years later, Pennsylvania had its first two cases at a Fayette County domestic farmed rabbit facility.

In human and animal medicine, biomarkers are used in several ways, including to diagnose, predict, or monitor health issues. Human health care consumers are familiar with biomarkers as mundane as blood pressure to gauge heart health, or more sophisticated testing for BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations to predict the likelihood of breast cancer. For clinicians, they are valuable tools – once they are identified.