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Jun 30, 2013
Microbiology experts will visit Penn State for the American Society for Virology's annual meeting
More than 1,200 leading microbiology and virus experts will take part in the American Society for Virology's 32nd annual meeting, to be held from July 20-24 at Penn State's University Park campus.
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Jun 23, 2013
Penn State biologist is among 3 winners of 2013 Kyoto Prizes
Masatoshi Nei, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State and an affiliate of the Huck Institutes, is among the three winners of the Kyoto Prizes for 2013, the Inamori Foundation announced on Friday.
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Jun 23, 2013
Researchers to focus on factors affecting forest regeneration
Over the next several years, Penn State researchers including Huck Institutes affiliate Duane Diefenbach in the College of Agricultural Sciences will study factors affecting forest regeneration in Pennsylvania.
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Jun 20, 2013
Genome instability studies could change treatment for cancer and other diseases
Making steps toward the realization of personalized genomic medicine, Huck Institutes affiliates at the Center for Medical Genomics are finding and analyzing hotspots of genomic instability and mutation known as microsatellites.
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Jun 19, 2013
Sound waves precisely position nanowires
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers that includes Huck Institutes affiliate Tony Jun Huang can, by using sound waves, place nanowires in repeatable patterns for potential use in a variety of sensors, optoelectronics, and nanoscale circuits.
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Jun 16, 2013
Rescuing honey bee hives
Honey bee colonies are collapsing in record numbers, and Penn State entomologists -- including Huck Institutes affiliate Christina Grozinger -- are leading the pack of researchers scrambling to figure out why.
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Jun 16, 2013
Huck Institutes researcher featured by Chemical Heritage Foundation's "Distillations"
Koraly Perez-Edgar, a Huck Institutes affiliate in the Department of Psychology at Penn State, talks about cerebral development in utero and in young children.
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Jun 05, 2013
3 billion-year-old microfossils include plankton
Spindle-shaped inclusions in 3 billion-year-old rocks are microfossils of plankton that probably inhabited the oceans around the globe during that time, according to an international team of researchers that includes Huck Institutes affiliate Christopher House.
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Jun 05, 2013
Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and autism now can be studied with mature brain cells reprogrammed from skin cells
A research team led by Huck Institutes affiliate Gong Chen has developed a new method for obtaining mature neurons from reprogrammed skin cells, allowing difficult-to-study diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and autism to be probed more safely and effectively.
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Jun 04, 2013
Huck Institutes acquire a new multi-laser, biosafety level 2 (BSL2)-capable cell sorter
The Huck Institutes Microscopy and Cytometry Facility is preparing laboratory space within the Millennium Science Complex for its latest major equipment acquisition, a Beckman Coulter MoFlo Astrios cell sorter.
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