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Dec 15, 2014
Squid supplies blueprint for printable thermoplastics
A Penn State team of researchers is using squid to make a thermoplastic that can be used in 3-D printing.
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Dec 15, 2014
Receptor may be key to treating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Inhibiting a nuclear receptor in the gut could lead to a treatment for a liver disorder that affects almost 30 percent of the Western world's adult population, according to an international team of researchers.
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Dec 10, 2014
Manuel Llinás receives grant from Gates Foundation to continue novel study of malaria parasite
Manuel Llinás, a Huck-cofunded researcher and associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State has been awarded two years of Phase II funding for a Grand Challenges Exploration Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Dec 09, 2014
New video profile: Elyse Muñoz
Elyse Muñoz -- a Ph.D. candidate in the Huck Institutes' Genetics program -- studies the malaria parasite.
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Dec 09, 2014
New video profile: Emily Finch
Emily Finch -- a Ph.D. candidate in the Huck Institutes' Immunology and Infectious Diseases program -- studies relationships between diet and disease.
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Dec 09, 2014
New video profile: Marta Byrska-Bishop
Marta Byrska-Bishop -- a Ph.D. candidate in the Huck Institutes' Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences program -- studies genomics and gene regulation in relation to inherited diseases.
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Dec 09, 2014
New video profile: Bill Turbitt & Connie Rogers
Physiology Ph.D. candidate Bill Turbitt and faculty researcher Connie Rogers study the impact of behavioral and dietary interventions on immunity and cancer risk and development.
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Dec 07, 2014
Living African group discovered to be the most populous humans over the last 150,000 years
New genetic research reveals that a small group of hunter-gatherers now living in Southern Africa once was so large that it comprised the majority of living humans during most of the past 150,000 years.
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Nov 19, 2014
Major new study reveals new similarities and differences between mice and humans
Powerful clues have been discovered about why the human immune system, metabolism, stress response, and other life functions are so different from those of the mouse.
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Nov 13, 2014
Graduate students, faculty share the 'PhUn' in physiology at elementary school
During the American Physiological Society's annual PhUn (Physiology Understanding) Week initiative, Penn State graduate students and faculty from the Huck Institutes' Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) in Physiology partnered with a local elementary school to help first- and second-grade students explore basic concepts in physiology and better understand the study of how living things work.
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