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Sep 05, 2012
Huge study of the human genome includes Penn State research
The first integrated understanding of the functioning of the human genome has finally been enableded"the triumphant result of a collaborative five-year project involving more than 440 researchers in 32 labs worldwide.
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Sep 05, 2012
In touch with Peter Hudson
The Huck Institutes' director champions a collaborative approach to life science research at Penn State.
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Sep 04, 2012
New Illumina DNA sequencers acquired by the Genomics Core Facility
A HiSeq 2000 has been obtained through a grant from the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program, and a MiSeq has been purchased with funding from the Huck Institutes.
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Sep 03, 2012
Gulf of Mexico research led by Penn State biologist will be honored with government award
The project, led by Penn State professor and lead scientist Charles Fisher and project manager James Brooks of TDI Brooks International, has been honored by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program with the Excellence in Partnership award.
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Sep 03, 2012
Call for proposals: Shared Technology Facilities pilot projects
Principal investigators are eligible for up to $10,000 per proposal; deadline for submissions is October 1, 2012.
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Aug 30, 2012
Announcing the John Snow Biomedical Seminars
A lecture and open forum for discussing broader issues in biomedical sciences, to be held on the first Thursday of each month at 5:15pm
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Aug 29, 2012
Graduate Program Research Retreat
Projects by faculty and graduate students featured at second annual event
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Aug 29, 2012
ScholarSphere repository will enable research sharing and discovery
On September 24, Penn State will launch a new online repository service which will allow users to securely collect, preserve, and share scholarly works with the Penn State community and the world.
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Aug 27, 2012
Darwin was right: the Eastern Pacific Barrier is virtually impassable by coral species
Iliana Baums and colleagues have discovered that a coral species found in abundance from Indonesia eastward to Fiji, Samoa, and the Line Islands rarely crosses the Eastern Pacific Barrier toward the coast of the Americas.
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Aug 26, 2012
Is it possible to save coral reefs?
Coral reefs are suffering from overfishing and other types of resource exploitation, and are being degraded by pollution from sewage and agricultural runoff as well as by increasing sea-surface temperatures and acidification as a result of global warming.
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