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Dec 15, 2014

Receptor may be key to treating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Inhibiting a nuclear receptor in the gut could lead to a treatment for a liver disorder that affects almost 30 percent of the Western world's adult population, according to an international team of researchers.

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Dec 10, 2014

Manuel Llinás receives grant from Gates Foundation to continue novel study of malaria parasite

Manuel Llinás, a Huck-cofunded researcher and associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State has been awarded two years of Phase II funding for a Grand Challenges Exploration Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Dec 07, 2014

Living African group discovered to be the most populous humans over the last 150,000 years

New genetic research reveals that a small group of hunter-gatherers now living in Southern Africa once was so large that it comprised the majority of living humans during most of the past 150,000 years.

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Nov 19, 2014

Major new study reveals new similarities and differences between mice and humans

Powerful clues have been discovered about why the human immune system, metabolism, stress response, and other life functions are so different from those of the mouse.

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Oct 14, 2014

Video profile: Marta Byrska-Bishop & Ross Hardison

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences Ph.D. candidate Marta Byrska-Bishop and faculty researcher Dr. Ross Hardison study genomics and gene regulation in relation to inherited diseases.

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Jun 17, 2014

World's cocoa crop could get a big boost from a simple, non-toxic spray

Huck scientists find Theobroma cacao trees' natural disease defense is bolstered by glycerol foliar treatment

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Nov 13, 2013

Ill-fated: Tech-savvy biologist makes an ideal host of epidemics MOOC

Digital epidemiologist Marcel Salathe is teaching an online infectious disease course that he designed to be fun, and the knowledge is spreading like a virus.

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Nov 11, 2013

Investigating roles of rare genetic variants in disease

Researchers at the Center for Systems Genomics are developing bioinformatics software to facilitate analysis of rare variation in human genome sequence data.

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Oct 14, 2013

Kateryna Makova honored as Penn State's Francis R. Pentz and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science

Huck Institutes affiliate Kateryna Makova, a professor of biology at Penn State, has been honored by the University's Eberly College of Science by being appointed the Francis R. and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science.

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Jul 29, 2013

Announcing the Huck Institutes Graduate Enrichment Fund

The Huck Institutes are pleased to announce a new fund to provide research support for students in our graduate programs.

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