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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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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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