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Jun 15, 2015
Disabling infection-fighting immune response speeds up wound healing in diabetes
One of the body's tools for fighting off infection in a wound may actually slow down the healing process, according to new research by a team of Harvard University, Boston Children's Hospital, and Penn State University scientists.
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Jun 15, 2015
Vitamin D status related to immune response to HIV-1
Vitamin D plays an important part in the human immune response and deficiency can leave individuals less able to fight infections like HIV-1. Now an international team of researchers has found that high-dose vitamin D supplementation can reverse the deficiency and also improve immune response.
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Jun 09, 2015
Schiff receives NIH Pioneer Award
Steven Schiff, professor of neurosurgery and Brush Chair Professor of Engineering in Engineering Science and Mechanics, has received a $4.1 million National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, for research aimed at reducing the number of infant deaths from neonatal sepsis in developing countries by identifying the roots of infection, from season of birth to home environment.
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Jun 09, 2015
Tree root research confirms that different morphologies produce similar results
Despite markedly different root morphologies and resulting disparities in nutrient-uptake processes, forest trees of different lineages show comparable efficiency in acquiring soil nutrients, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Jun 09, 2015
Unlocking the biofuel energy stored in plant cell walls
Penn State scientists are studying how plant cell walls are made, information that could lead to better ways of harvesting the energy stored in their chemical bonds.
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Jun 08, 2015
Anthropologist receives $1.84 million to study craniofacial malformations
Penn State will receive $1.84 million over five years as a subcontract on a National Institutes of Health grant through the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, N.Y., to explore craniosynostosis, a birth defect that includes facial and cranial dysmorphology.
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May 26, 2015
Huck student helps advance breakthrough using award funds
Plant Biology doctoral candidate Bastian Minkenberg, a Huck Graduate Research Dissertation Award winner, worked to help advance the recent genome-editing breakthrough in Yinong Yang’s lab using funds from his award.
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May 26, 2015
Announcing 2015 Biotechnology Mini Grant Awardees
The Huck Institutes are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2015 Biotechnology Mini Grants.
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May 21, 2015
Chronic illness causes less harm when carnivores cooperate
Gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park have given researchers the first scientific evidence from wild mammals that living in a group can lessen the impacts of a chronic disease.
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May 12, 2015
Study shows how E. Coli thrive in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
The survival and proliferation of usually harmless Escherichia coli in the gut of inflammatory bowel disease patients may now be better understood, as researchers have defined a fundamental mechanism through which the bacteria can thrive during flare-ups.
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