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Aug 21, 2014
Hot-spring bacteria reveal ability to use far-red light for photosynthesis
Bacteria growing in near darkness use a previously unknown process for harvesting energy and producing oxygen from sunlight, a research team led by Huck Institutes faculty scientist Donald Bryant has discovered.
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Aug 21, 2014
Ben Franklin's TechCelerator turns promising research into startups with promise
Research-to-startup program helps build entrepreneurship among scientists including Huck Institutes faculty researchers Tony Jun Huang and Gong Chen.
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Aug 20, 2014
Elyse E. Munoz receives the ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship
Elyse E. Munoz, a Ph.D. graduate student in the Huck Institutes' genetics program was named a 2014-2017 recipient of a Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship.
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Aug 17, 2014
Zombie ant fungi manipulate hosts to die on the 'doorstep' of the colony
A parasitic fungus that must kill its ant hosts outside their nest to reproduce and transmit its infection, manipulates its victims to die in the vicinity of the colony, ensuring a constant supply of potential new hosts, according to researchers at Penn State and colleagues at Brazil's Federal University of Vicosa.
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Aug 17, 2014
Pygmy phenotype developed many times, adaptive to rainforest
The small body size associated with the pygmy phenotype is probably a selective adaptation for rainforest hunter-gatherers, according to an international team of researchers that includes Huck Institutes faculty scientist George Perry, but all African pygmy phenotypes do not have the same genetic underpinning, suggesting a more recent adaptation than previously thought.
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Aug 13, 2014
Training program for kinesiology, physiology students receives $1.3M grant
Penn State's Department of Kinesiology and Intercollege Program in Physiology, part of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, have received a $1,353,144, five-year pre-doctoral training grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Aug 11, 2014
Native bacteria block Wolbachia from being passed to mosquito progeny
Native bacteria living inside mosquitoes prevent the insects from passing Wolbachia bacteria -- which can make the mosquitoes resistant to the malaria parasite -- to their offspring, according to a team of researchers that includes Jason Rasgon.
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Aug 10, 2014
Dorothy B. Huck: January 15, 1923 - August 9, 2014
The Huck Institutes are deeply saddened by the loss of our friend and benefactor Dottie Huck.
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Aug 04, 2014
Flores bones show features of Down syndrome, not a new "hobbit" human
Detailed reanalysis by an international team of researchers including Robert B. Eckhardt suggests that the specimen, known as LB1, does not represent a new species.
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Aug 04, 2014
Scientist uses giant spectrometer to search for cure for cancer
Working with the ScholarSphere " essentially a gigantic MRI on stilts " Scott Showalter is moving closer to the biomedical breakthrough he so desires: to help find a cure for cancer.
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