UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jansen Hoffard, a fourth-year Penn State student dual-majoring in international politics with a concentration in national security and communication arts and sciences, spent the summer living and working in Washington, D.C., through the College of the Liberal ArtsSemester in Washington Program. Hoffard, who has a minor in politics and public policy,…
Platinum-based chemotherapy drugs are powerful at treating cancer but can have an under-appreciated impact on the rest of the body. To investigate this, a team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge, the Francis Crick Institute, and King’s College London used new sequencing technologies and found distinctive DNA damage in the liver. They…


