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Jun 22, 2016
Shashikant appointed assistant director
The leadership team of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Cooduvalli (“Shashiâ€) Shashikant has been appointed an assistant director in the Huck Institutes.
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Jun 21, 2016
Peters receives inaugural Huck Award for Outstanding Achievements in Life Sciences Research
Dr. Jeffrey Peters, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis at Penn State, has been given the first-ever Huck Award for Outstanding Achievements in Life Sciences Research.
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Jun 20, 2016
Invasive species could cause billions in damages to agriculture
Invasive insects and pathogens could be a multi-billion-dollar threat to global agriculture and developing countries may be the biggest target, according to a team of international researchers.
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Jun 14, 2016
Thirty years of research supports cacao farmers, chocolate industry
The 30th anniversary of the Endowed Program in the Molecular Biology of Cocoa -- Penn State's first fully endowed research program -- was celebrated May 31-June 3 on the University Park campus during a symposium titled, "Frontiers in Science and Technology for Cacao Quality, Productivity and Sustainability."
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Jun 12, 2016
Researchers to study how microbes become 'fungi in ant's clothing'
A pair of grants worth more than $2 million will enable Penn State researchers to study how microbial parasites control the behaviors and characteristics of their animal hosts.
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May 23, 2016
Study of fungi-insect relationships may lead to new evolutionary discoveries
Zombie ants are only one of the fungi-insect relationships studied by a team of Penn State biologists in a newly compiled database of insect fungi interactions.
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May 23, 2016
New targets for vaccines identified on the surface of the malaria parasite
Dozens of potential new protein targets for malaria vaccines have been identified and characterized on the surface of the transmitted sporozoite stage of the malaria parasite in a new research study.
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May 23, 2016
Programmable materials find strength in molecular repetition
Synthetic proteins based on those found in a variety of squid species' ring teeth may lead the way to self-healing polymers carefully constructed for specific toughness and stretchability that might have applications in textiles, cosmetics and medicine, according to Penn State researchers.
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May 17, 2016
How Depression and Antidepressant Drugs Work
New insight from depressed mice helps researchers unite two hypotheses
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May 17, 2016
How did the giraffe get its long neck?
Clues now revealed by new genome sequencing
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