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Philly's stellar girl has the inside chatter on the talks that will take The City by storm on Nov. 8 at the Temple Performing Arts Center. Read on for 20 percent off your ticket.

The new company looks to help small- and medium-sized pharma, biotech and medical device firms enter the fastest-growing market in the world.

Green jobs can mean many things to many people. To our expert, they have the power to transform Philadelphia on many levels: economic, environmental and educational, to name a few.

Projects totaling $2 billion and a healthy dose of collaboration have helped the pride of West Philly come a long way. All that's left is leveraging and messaging, says one of its leaders.

The Penn senior from Abington founded a nonprofit that connects homeless youth with homeless animals, addressing two major city problems in one fell, loving swoop.

This punk rock runner and budding make-up artist makes a big impact for canine cancer research at PennVet with her salute to Sarge.

The Economy League is partnering with a Conshohocken firm in its comprehensive effort to prepare the region for world class status.

Early stage medical, energy and internet-based companies are again the focus of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania's latest investment round, including $500,000 for Green Power Technologies.

Forbes points out the obvious - our industrial heritage - in ranking Philly atop its toxic cities list, but our own report finds that while we have some work to do, we live in an environment that's increasingly sustainable.

The term 'tech transfer' is giving way to new approaches focused more on developing technologies rooted in the region's vast academic and research laboratory, and early results are promising.

We asked more than a dozen of the city's opinion leaders, game changers and gracious hosts that very question, and the consensus says that while we're often too hard on ourselves, we're good enough, we're smart enough, and people like us.

Face it Philly, we're not as healthy as we'd like to be. Center City native Clint Randall's job is to help make the connection between city planning and public health, putting our region at the forefront of a growing trend.

Enzybel will reside in Port Business Incubator as it establishes U.S. foothold for the natural compounds it commercializes for food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and textile industries.

Build your own carbon nanotube! Drexel, Penn and WHYY have teamed up for Saturday's free event, which will offer the public a variety of hands-on science and engineering experiences.

Researchers at CHOP, Temple, and Penn were among those who received a combined $600,000 in funding from the University City Science Center's QED Proof-of-Concept program, announced earlier this week.