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Jan 25, 2015

Six Huck faculty among sixteen named distinguished professors at Penn State

Reka Albert, James Broach, Katherine Freeman, Eric Harvill, Susan McHale, and Rongling Wu are among the faculty awarded a distinguished professorship by the Penn State Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.

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Jan 19, 2015

Penn State and Geisinger announce new collaborative gene research project

Marylyn Ritchie, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and director of the Center for Systems Genomics in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State University, will lead a collaborative effort between Penn State and Geisinger Research to connect the genome data of 100,000 anonymous patients with their medical histories, in order to identify the genetic and environmental basis of human disease.

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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 09, 2014

New video profile: Marta Byrska-Bishop

Marta Byrska-Bishop -- a Ph.D. candidate in the Huck Institutes' Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences program -- studies genomics and gene regulation in relation to inherited diseases.

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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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Nov 06, 2014

Battling drug-resistant pathogens

Biologist Andrew Read argues for new treatment strategies in race against rapidly evolving 'bugs.'

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Nov 02, 2014

Researchers probe link between newborn health and vitamin A

The impact vitamin A has on newborns is virtually unknown, but Penn State nutrition researchers including Huck faculty researcher A. Catharine Ross have enableded two papers that may provide a framework for future investigations of the vitamin and neonatal health.

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Nov 02, 2014

First detailed picture of a cancer-related cell enzyme in action on a chromosome

A landmark study by Huck faculty researcher Song Tan provides new insight into the function of an enzyme related to the BRCA1 breast cancer protein.

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Oct 14, 2014

Novel chemistry turns conventional polymers into biomedical supermaterials

Jian Yang and his lab are developing extraordinary materials – fluorescent, biodegradable, and 3D-printable – for regenerative engineering, targeted drug-delivery, and non-invasive imaging

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