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Jun 09, 2025
Two Penn State doctoral students selected for industry internship in Germany
The One Health Microbiome Center (OHMC) in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State is sending two doctoral students to Hilden, Germany, for a seven-week industry internship at the headquarters of QIAGEN, a global leader in biotechnology for life sciences diagnostics, equipment and research.
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Jun 04, 2025
$2.9M grant funds study on long-term effects adolescent binge drinking
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will use a new five-year, $2,900,000 grant to investigate the long-term effects of excess alcohol drinking during adolescence.
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Jun 02, 2025
Huck opens search for Associate Director for Graduate Education
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is seeking an innovative Penn State faculty member with a strong background in interdisciplinary life sciences research and a passion for teaching and mentoring graduate students to join our Huck leadership team as an Associate Director for Graduate Education.
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Jun 03, 2025
Penn State’s Youth Food Lab attends UN Science, Technology, Innovation forum
Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences was represented on the global stage as faculty and students participated in the United Nations’ 10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, held at U.N. headquarters in New York City earlier this month.
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May 29, 2025
Resetting the fight-or-flight response
New study reveals mechanism responsible for resetting key molecular cycle involved in response to stress and starvation.
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May 07, 2025
Common diabetes drug helps chickens lay more eggs
Metformin, a drug commonly prescribed to humans, could be a game-changer for farms and food production, researchers said.
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Apr 29, 2025
HGSAC prepares for largest Life Sciences Symposium yet
The Life Sciences Symposium, organized by the Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee (HGSAC), is set to showcase student research on May 23.
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Apr 29, 2025
Heather Hines named interim director of the Center for Pollinator Research and the Insect Biodiversity Center
Heather Hines, Associate Professor of Biology and Entomology, has been named Interim Director of the Center for Pollinator Research (CPR) and the Insect Biodiversity Center (IBC). Hines is succeeding Christina Grozinger, Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology and director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
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Apr 25, 2025
Traditional forest medicinal plant ghost pipe used differently today
Driven by the internet and social media, consumption of a strange white plant known as ghost pipe is enjoying a resurgence — but with a twist.
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Apr 24, 2025
Beyond the double helix: Alternative DNA conformations in ape genomes
Researchers used recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla and two orangutans to predict locations of DNA sequences that can form other structures besides the double helix.
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