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Mar 29, 2017
Moriah Szpara awarded Priscilla Schaffer Memorial Award
Moriah Szpara, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, has been awarded the Priscilla Schaffer Memorial Award by the 2017 International Herpesvirus Workshop selection committee.
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Mar 29, 2017
Penn State develops first-of-a-kind model to research post-malaria epilepsy
A first-of-its-kind mouse model could lead to an understanding of how cerebral malaria infection leads to the development of epilepsy in children, and to the prevention of seizures.
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Feb 09, 2017
How best to treat infections and tumors
Choice of containment versus aggressive treatment depends on drug resistance
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Feb 05, 2017
Tropical tree abundance influences immunity
A recent study by Jim Marden et al. uncovers possible links between genetics, immunity, and ecological dynamics of tropical trees.
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Jan 02, 2017
Fungus-infecting virus could help track spread of white-nose syndrome in bats
A newly discovered virus infecting the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats could help scientists and wildlife agencies track the spread of the disease that is decimating bat populations in the United States, a new study suggests.
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Mar 16, 2016
Keeping ribosomes stuck may stop virulent bacteria strain in its tracks
Compounds that stop a cellular rescue operation for stuck ribosomes may bolster the nation's defenses against biowarfare and bioterrorism, as well as create alternative antibiotics to handle increasingly resistant pathogens, according to a team of researchers.
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Feb 03, 2016
Huck Institutes and the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD) featured in Penn State president's blog
An invitation to a CIDD luncheon provides food for thought: "Brown Bags and Bright Ideas" in "Digging Deeper" with Dr. Eric Barron.
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Jan 12, 2016
NIH Director writes article/blog on grad student Elyse Munoz and Lindner Lab
Elyse Munoz is the focus of the first of LabTV profiles that NIH director Francis Collins will be sharing throughout the month of August of young people whose learning experiences have set them on the path to becoming biomedical researchers.
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Jan 12, 2016
Tim Reluga receives 14th Bellman Prize
CIDD researcher Tim Reluga wins the prestigious Bellman prize for 2014, recognizing his paper as the best to be enableded in Mathematical Biosciences during 2010-2011.
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Jan 12, 2016
Three CIDD faculty members are named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Peter Hudson, Matthew Thomas, and Andrew Read have been elected by their peers for distinguished efforts to advance science.
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