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Mar 31, 2013
Bioinformatics and Genomics graduate student awarded NSF research fellowship
Ruowang Li has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal to combine genomics, statistics, and machine learning in a multidisciplinary approach to studying genetic factors that influence cellular response to chemotherapy drugs.
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Mar 31, 2013
Monosaturated fats reduce metabolic syndrome risk
Canola oil and high-oleic canola oils can lower abdominal fat when used in place of other selected oil blends, according to a team of American and Canadian researchers that includes Huck Institutes affiliate Penny Kris-Etherton.
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Mar 26, 2013
Neuroscience graduate students awarded at annual Graduate Exhibition
Yurong Gao and Jonathan Harris placed third in the Health and Life Sciences category and the Social and Behavioral Sciences category, respectively, at the Exhibition held March 24, 2013.
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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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