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Jul 20, 2016
George Perry receives NSF CAREER Award
George Perry, Penn State assistant professor of anthropology and biology, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Jul 18, 2016
Trees rely on a range of strategies to hunt for nutrient hot spots
On the surface, trees may look stationary, but underground their roots -- aided by their fungal allies -- are constantly on the hunt and using a surprising number of strategies to find food, according to an international team of researchers.
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Jul 18, 2016
Penn State Smeal exposes scientists to business, entrepreneurship expertise
A week of executive-style business classes led by Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty recently exposed 22 life science doctoral and post-doctoral students at Penn State to the entrepreneurial possibilities of their research.
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Jul 17, 2016
Penn State bee research pollinates next generation of scientists
Elina Lastro Niño's curiosity about honey bees dates back to her childhood in Bosnia, where her father kept bees for a time. After perhaps one bee sting too many, her father gave up his bees, and Niño's interest in honey bees waned — but not her fascination with insect biology.
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Jul 11, 2016
Summer fieldwork for MCIBS students: from here to China
This summer many MCIBS students can be found hard at work in their labs. Or you just might find some by a local stream or in Africa or China taking their research into the field.
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Jul 07, 2016
Probing Questions: How concerned should Pennsylvanians be about Zika virus?
Jason Rasgon, associate professor of entomology and disease epidemiology, studies how viruses are spread by mosquitoes, fleas, sand flies, lice, ticks, mites, and other insects and arthropods. In this Probing Question video, Rasgon looks at the relative risks for Pennsylvanians of Zika virus, Lyme disease and West Nile virus.
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Jul 06, 2016
New clues could help scientists harness the power of photosynthesis
Identification of a gene needed to expand light harvesting in photosynthesis into the far-red-light spectrum provides clues to the development of oxygen-producing photosynthesis, an evolutionary advance that changed the history of life on Earth.
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Jun 27, 2016
Penn State, TB Alliance, and GSK partner to discover new treatments for TB
A new collaboration between TB Alliance, GSK, and scientists in the Eberly College of Science seeks to find new small molecules that can be used to create antibiotics in the fight against tuberculosis (TB).
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Jun 27, 2016
Picky eaters: Bumble bees prefer plants with nutrient-rich pollen
Bumble bees have discriminating palettes when it comes to their pollen meals, according to researchers at Penn State.
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Jun 27, 2016
3D printing produces cartilage from strands of bioink
Strands of cow cartilage substitute for ink in a 3D bioprinting process that may one day create cartilage patches for worn out joints, according to a team of engineers.
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