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In the Metabolomics Core Facility, vials filled with extracts of bodily fluid wait in an auto-sampler. Each sample will be passed through a chromatography system that sorts the complex sample into its constituents. Droplets of the separated sample are then misted into the mass spectrometer for analysis.IMAGE: PATRICK MANSELL

March 11, 2020

Listening to your gut: A powerful new tool on the microbiome and cell metabolism

Photo of the scholarship recipients.

March 02, 2020

Nineteen Penn State students from Six Departments Earn Prestigious CSL Behring Scholarships in Industrial Biotechnology

Andrew Zydney (left) in a lab in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building with chemical engineering graduate students Neil Taylor and Kaitlyn Brickey. IMAGE: TYLER HENDERSON

February 25, 2020

Chemical engineering professor receives membrane research award

When cyanobacteria live in low-light conditions, such as beneath a pond surface or under the leaf litter on a forest floor, some are able to switch from using the visible light that is most conducive to their growth and photosynthetic activities to harvesting the weaker, far-red sunlight that filters down to them. IMAGE: SHIREEN DOOLING, BIODESIGN INSTITUTE AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

February 05, 2020

Scientists solve structure enabling cyanobacteria to thrive in low light

Researchers found that perfluorooctane sulfonate altered the composition of the mouse microbiome and the metabolism of the bacterial communities in their guts. IMAGE: © ISTOCK PHOTO / ROYALTYSTOCKPHOTO

January 21, 2020

Persistent environmental contaminant changes the gut microbiome of mice

Hetian Hu, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, holds bacterial cellulose.

January 20, 2020

Center Seeks Proposals for 2020 IMPACT Seed Grants in Industrial Biotechnology

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