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Jan 20, 2013

Nine Huck Institutes faculty members featured in Discovery U videos

Peter Hudson, Scott Selleck, David Hughes, Melissa Rolls, Paula Droege, Tracy Langkilde, Phil Bevilacqua, Stephen Schaeffer, and Robert Paulson talk about research that's driving scientific discovery at Penn State.

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Dec 16, 2012

Yingwei Mao receives two major grants

The American Heart Association and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation have each awarded Dr. Mao with a grant intended to provide support for promising beginning scientists.

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Oct 30, 2012

Interaction of genes and environment influences obesity in children

Kathleen Keller and colleagues at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine find that while neither genes nor the environment alone can predict obesity in children, a strong relationship emerges when these factors are considered together.

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Oct 29, 2012

NSF grant seeks to replicate human pattern recognition in computers

Yanxi Liu and Rick Gilmore will collaborate with Stanford's Anthony Norcia to bridge the gap between how humans and computers perceive and process visual patterns.

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Oct 15, 2012

Introducing Jian Yang

There is a new researcher in the Millennium Science Complex developing vascular grafts to treat atherosclerosis, bio-glue to aid wound closure without stitches, a biopolymer to induce bone regeneration, an injectible hydrogel to aid in cancer treatment, and biodegradable photoluminescent nanomaterials for use in therapeutic nanomedicine.

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Aug 13, 2012

IST researchers examine interplay of cognition, physiology and behavior

Researchers at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, including Huck Institutes faculty member Frank Ritter, are using cognitive architecture " a theory of human cognition implemented as a computer simulation program " to understand how cognitive processes interact with biological systems and influence social behavior.

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Jul 17, 2012

Huck Institutes faculty member receives $100,000 grant from NFL Charities to advance research on concussions in children

Semyon Slobounov aims to find out whether children suffering from concussions recover faster and have a better prognosis than young adults.

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Jul 17, 2012

Acoustic tweezers capture tiny creatures with ultrasound

A team of bioengineers and biochemists including Tony Jun Huang and Steven Benkovic has created a dime-sized device that uses ultrasound to manipulate cells and small organisms.

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Jun 06, 2012

New BioChip may make diagnosis of leukemia and HIV faster and cheaper

Tony Jun Huang and his colleagues, including Wafik El-Deiry, have developed a faster, cheaper and portable alternative to the current flow cytometry technology used to diagnose HIV and leukemia.

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May 29, 2012

A decade's worth of research suggests that fish feel pain

Victoria Braithwaite discusses the need for better aquaculture practices in designing healthier and more humane fisheries.

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