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Mar 26, 2013
Declaring a truce with our microbiological frienemies
Research by Huck Institutes affiliate Eric Harvill suggests that managing bacteria and other microorganisms in the body, rather than just fighting them, may be lead to better health and a stronger immune system.
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Mar 26, 2013
Fighting fire with fire
Research by Huck Institutes affiliate Alan Taylor focuses on whether suppressing naturally occurring wildfires increases the possibility of their eventually becoming severe.
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Mar 26, 2013
Endangered lemurs' complete genomes are sequenced and analyzed for conservation efforts
Scientists including Huck Institutes affiliates George Perry and Webb Miller lead a research team that for the first time has sequenced and analyzed the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes in an effort to help guide conservation.
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Mar 26, 2013
Physiology graduate students awarded at annual Graduate Exhibition
Jin-Kwang (Dani) Kim and Darshan Trivedi placed second and third, respectively, in the Health & Life Sciences category at the Exhibition held March 24, 2013.
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Mar 19, 2013
WHO grant will fund infectious disease research in Tanzania
With the help of a three-year grant from the World Health Organization's Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, scientists from the Huck Institutes will collaborate with the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology to investigate the impact of climate and land-use changes on infectious disease dynamics in Tanzania's Maasai Steppe.
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Mar 14, 2013
Engineering Biofilms: Understanding how bacteria function in communities could lead to a host of new applications
From oil-spill clean-up to producing alternative fuels, microbial communities have the potential to do great good. Professor Tom Wood is determined to figure out how.
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Mar 13, 2013
Penn State open online course "infects" learners, causing a "virtual pandemic"
In a free new online course, "Epidemics: the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases," offered by the Eberly College of Science at Penn State, students and members of the public will learn about how infectious diseases spread by playing a real-time epidemic game " a "virtual apocalypse," which instructors will run in parallel with the more traditional lessons.
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Mar 13, 2013
Penn State Hershey researcher receives $765,000 for diabetes research
Work done by Penn State College of Medicines Dr. Alaa S. Awad to identify potential new therapies for diabetic kidney disease recently earned $765,000 through Novo Nordisk's Diabetes Innovation Award Program.
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Mar 11, 2013
19th Plant Biology Symposium at Penn State will be hosted by Plant Biology graduate program
The international conference, entitled "Cellulose synthesis, structure, matrix interactions and technology," will be held May 16-18, 2013, at University Park, and is being sponsored by the Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation.
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Mar 06, 2013
Probing Question: Is being overweight always bad for your health?
According to Gordon Jensen, head of Penn State's Department of Nutritional Sciences, the answer may be "no" " at least for those of us who are lucky enough to live to the age of 75 and beyond.
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