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Jan 28, 2025
New Annual Summit Focuses on Graduate Student Resiliency
Earlier this month, the Huck Institutes, in partnership with the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State, hosted the Inaugural Huck Institutes T32 Summit.
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Jan 02, 2025
Pollinators most vulnerable to rising global temperatures are flies, study shows
New research led by Penn State scientists suggests flies are increasingly at risk due to rising global temperatures.
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Jan 02, 2025
New treatment for dairy cows could help fight antibiotic resistance, study finds
A concentrated sugar solution could be just as effective as antibiotics at treating a common infection in dairy cows, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.
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Dec 18, 2024
Placenta assessment tool aims to improve neonatal, maternal care
A multi-national, multi-institutional team led by Penn State researchers developed a new tool that enables doctors to examine placentas right at the bedside using just a phone.
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Dec 17, 2024
Brain regions that relieve effects of chronic stress in mice differ based on sex
In two new studies, researchers made mice resilient to stress by activating neurons in different brain regions and found that the changes involved are highly sex-specific
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Dec 12, 2024
Center for Socially Responsible AI awards seed funding to seven diverse projects
The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) has announced the results of its most recent seed-funding competition.
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Dec 02, 2024
Heard on Campus: Launch of new center in molecular and cellular sciences, NCEMS
Reception celebrates new NSF-funded National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences at Penn State.
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Nov 15, 2024
Q&A: How do microbiomes influence the study of life?
Microorganisms — bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms — may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not more, than genetic mutations, creating new lineages and even new species of animals and plants, according to Seth Bordenstein, director of Penn State’s One Health Microbiome Center within the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
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Nov 06, 2024
Testing thousands of RNA enzymes helps find first ‘twister ribozyme’ in mammals
A new method, developed by Penn State researchers, can test the activity of thousands of predicted ribozymes in a single experiment.
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Oct 31, 2024
Huck researchers reflect on the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
This month, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists credited with historic breakthroughs surrounding proteins and their structures. Three Huck researchers working on similar challenges chime in with their thoughts.
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