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Jun 04, 2013
New kind of antibiotic may be more effective at fighting tuberculosis, anthrax, and other diseases
Diseases such as tuberculosis, anthrax, and shigellosis a severe food-borne illness eventually could be treated with an entirely new and more-effective kind of antibiotic, thanks to a team of scientists led by Huck Institutes affiliate Kenneth Keiler, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State.
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Jun 02, 2013
David Hughes consulted in production of post-apocalyptic video game "The Last of Us"
Sony and video game developer Naughty Dog have consulted Huck Institutes affiliate David Hughes in making their new PlayStation game "The Last of Us," set in a post-apocalyptic world brought on by a Cordyceps-type fungus pandemic.
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Jun 02, 2013
Researchers develop a faster method to identify Salmonella strains
A new laboratory method developed by a research team including Huck Institutes affiliate Edward Dudley may significantly reduce the time it takes health officials to identify Salmonella strains.
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Jun 02, 2013
Debashis Ghosh Honored with the Mortimer Spiegelman Award of the American Public Health Association
Penn State statistics professor Debashis Ghosh has been honored with the Mortimer Spiegelman Award of the American Public Health Association.
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May 27, 2013
Looking back at the 11th Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Conference
One attendee, Stanford scientist James Holland Jones, calls the conference "quite possibly the best meeting I have ever attended".
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May 23, 2013
Study confirms U.S. amphibian populations declining at rapid rate
The first-ever estimate of how fast frogs, toads and salamanders in the United States are disappearing from their habitats a study contributed to by Huck Institutes affiliate David Miller reveals they are vanishing at an alarming and rapid rate.
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May 22, 2013
Vivek Narayan and Walter Jackson III receive IID travel awards
Vivek Narayan and Walter Jackson III, two Ph.D. candidates in the Huck Institutes' Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IID) program, were the recipients of recent IID travel awards.
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May 22, 2013
Huck Institutes IID graduate student awarded for innovative research
Walter Jackson III, a Ph.D. candidate in the Huck Institutes' Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IID) program, is the recipient of the 2013 Robert T. Simpson Graduate Award for Innovative Research.
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May 21, 2013
Mosquito behavior may be immune response, not parasite manipulation
What appears to be parasite manipulation may simply be part of malaria-carrying mosquitoes' immune response, according to a group of Penn State entomologists including Huck Institutes affiliates Lauren Cator, Simon Blanford, Courtney Murdock, Tom Baker, Andrew Read, and Matt Thomas.
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May 21, 2013
Getting to the bottom of the zombie ant phenomenon
While unraveling a dramatic case of mind control, Huck Institutes affiliate David Hughes is taking calls from Hollywood and gaining new insights into the role behavior plays in spreading disease.
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