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Dec 03, 2013
Three Huck Institutes affiliates named Fellows of AAAS
Ottar Bjornstad, Squire Booker, and James Broach are among seven Penn State faculty members named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Nov 13, 2013
Queen bee's honesty is the best policy for reproduction signals
Queen bees convey honest signals to worker bees about their reproductive status and quality, according to an international team of researchers led by Huck Institutes affiliate Christina Grozinger who say their findings may help to explain why honey bee populations are declining.
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Nov 13, 2013
$1.7M grant boosts women's health research at College of Medicine
Penn State College of Medicine has received a five-year, $1.7 million grant to continue its infertility research, led by Huck Institutes affiliate Richard Legro, as part of the nationwide Reproductive Medicine Network (RMN).
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Nov 13, 2013
Ill-fated: Tech-savvy biologist makes an ideal host of epidemics MOOC
Digital epidemiologist Marcel Salathe is teaching an online infectious disease course that he designed to be fun, and the knowledge is spreading like a virus.
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Nov 11, 2013
Investigating roles of rare genetic variants in disease
Researchers at the Center for Systems Genomics are developing bioinformatics software to facilitate analysis of rare variation in human genome sequence data.
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Nov 07, 2013
Male lizards prefer more-feminine lizards to "bearded ladies," new research finds
Which females do male lizards find to be the sexiest? Huck Institutes affiliate Tracy Langkilde and Lindsey Swierk, a graduate student in Langkilde's lab, tackle this question by examining the mating behavior and blue-color patterns of fence lizards in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi.
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Nov 06, 2013
Sarah Ades wins GlaxoSmithKline's Fast Track Competition to develop new antibiotics
Huck Institutes affiliate Sarah Ades has been announced by GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) as a winner of its discovery Fast Track competition, which is designed to accelerate the translation of academic research into novel medical therapies.
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Nov 06, 2013
Professor leads project to breed beans resistant to climate stresses
With support from a $5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, an international team led by Huck Institutes affiliate Jonathan Lynch will establish the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Climate-Resilient Beans.
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Oct 31, 2013
Tiny filter screens out cancer cells
Work by an interdisciplinary research team led by Huck Institutes affiliate Siyang Zheng may give cancer patients a better chance of survival after their tumors have metastasized.
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Oct 24, 2013
Hen turkey study yielding reassuring information
Midway through a five-year study, Penn State researchers led by Huck Institutes affiliate Duane Diefenbach are learning what level of fall wild turkey harvest by hunters causes population declines.
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