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Jan 08, 2014
A new pathway for neuron repair is discovered
Penn State University molecular biologists including Huck Institutes faculty member Melissa Rolls and graduate students Richard Albertson, Michelle Stone, and Li Chen have discovered a brand-new pathway for repairing nerve cells that could have implications for faster and improved healing.
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Jan 06, 2014
Huck Institutes announce Graduate Enrichment Fund awardees for 2013
Eleven students in the Huck Institutes' intercollege graduate degree programs (IGDPs) have been awarded $5,000 each to advance their research.
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Jan 06, 2014
Volumetrics diet among U.S. News & World Report's Best Diets of 2014
The Volumetrics diet created by Huck Institutes affiliate Barbara Rolls has been ranked No. 6 out of 32 diets in the Best Diets Overall category of the U.S. News & World Report's Best Diets 2014.
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Jan 05, 2014
Studies of a skin color gene across global populations reveal shared origins
All instances of a gene mutation that contributes to light skin color in Europeans came from the same chromosome of one person who most likely lived at least 10,000 years ago according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers led by Huck Institutes affiliate Keith Cheng.
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Jan 05, 2014
Sarah Pendergrass profiled in Genome Technology's 8th Annual Young Investigators
Huck Institutes affiliate Sarah Pendergrass is among twenty early-career scientists chosen by Genome Technology to highlight promising research.
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Jan 02, 2014
Creating value between the classroom, the lab, and the world outside
Graduate students at the Huck Institutes get together in the name of research and scholarship, career advancement, and camaraderie.
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Jan 01, 2014
Announcing the Huck Institutes Graduate Enrichment Fund 2013 awardees
Eleven students in the Huck Institutes' intercollege graduate degree programs (IGDPs) have been awarded $5,000 each to advance their research.
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Dec 19, 2013
DNA study gives insight into the evolution of food crops, other flowering plants
New light has been shed on a major event in the history of life on Earth the origin of all major food crops and all other flowering plants with the publication of the newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant by researchers including Huck Institutes faculty members Claude dePamphilis, Hong Ma, Stephan Schuster, Naomi Altman, and Michael Axtell, and graduate student Saima Shahid.
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Dec 19, 2013
Corn pest decline may save farmers money
Populations of European corn borer (ECB), a major corn crop pest, have declined significantly in the eastern United States, according to Penn State researchers including Huck Institutes affiliate John Tooker.
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Dec 19, 2013
Breakthrough could one day help sufferers of brain injury, Alzheimer's disease
Penn State researchers including Huck Institutes faculty member Gong Chen and graduate students Ziyuan Guo, Yuchen Chen, and Fan Wang have developed an innovative technology to regenerate functional neurons after brain injury and also in model systems used for research on Alzheimer's disease.
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