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Feb 04, 2020
Herringbone pattern in plant cell walls critical to cell growth
Plant cells tend to grow longer instead of wider due to the alignment of the many layers of cellulose that make up their cell walls, according to a new study that may have implications for biofuels research.
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Feb 03, 2020
Academia-enterprise partnership aims to help people with diabetes
Innovative wound dressing would help reduce life-threatening infections, amputations for diabetic patients.
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Jan 30, 2020
Ecology Institute invites University community to attend planning meetings
Penn State’s Ecology Institute has announced three planning meetings, which look to collectively identify objectives and prioritize activities that the institute can pursue moving forward. Additionally, information from preliminary survey data will be shared.
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Jan 27, 2020
Palmer Museum of Art premieres new exhibition of African art
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State announces its first major exhibition for the 2020 season, "African Brilliance: A Diplomat’s Sixty Years of Collecting." Opening on Feb. 8, the exhibition will showcase more than 80 works from East, Central, and West Africa collected over six decades by retired U.S. Ambassador Allen C. Davis.
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Jan 27, 2020
Zhang receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Xin Zhang, Paul Berg Early Career Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and of Molecular Biology, has been honored with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation in recognition of his work to “quantify cellular proteome stress and recovery using chemical methods.”
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Jan 21, 2020
Persistent environmental contaminant changes the gut microbiome of mice
An industrial chemical — phased out since 2002, but previously used in stain and water-repellent products and firefighting foam — alters the gut microbiome of mice and could have implications for human health, according to an international team of researchers.
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Jan 21, 2020
Insecticides becoming more toxic to honey bees
Researchers discover that neonicotinoid seed treatments are driving a dramatic increase in insecticide toxicity in U.S. agricultural landscapes, despite evidence that these treatments have little to no benefit in many crops.
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Jan 20, 2020
Center Seeks Proposals for 2020 IMPACT Seed Grants in Industrial Biotechnology
Students from all majors are welcome to apply although they must partner with a faculty or staff member as Principal Investigator.
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Jan 07, 2020
Growth of Microbiome Centers Noted In Nature Microbiology.
Penn State has committed to hiring almost two dozen new faculty members to study the microbiome since the creation of its own center.
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Jan 03, 2020
Water lily genome expands picture of the early evolution of flowering plants
The newly reported genome sequence of a water lily sheds light on the early evolution of angiosperms, the group of all flowering plants. An international team of researchers, including scientists at Penn State, used high-throughput next-generation sequencing technology to read out the water lily’s (Nymphaea colorata) genome and transcriptome — the set of all genes expressed as RNAs.
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