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Sep 07, 2011
Sustainability of Pennsylvania forests at risk
Dr. Jim Finley discusses the USDA Forest Service report.
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Aug 29, 2011
Second group of fellows to be selected
A new group of fellows will be selected to join the program soon.
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Aug 29, 2011
Former Huck Institutes director in New York Times
Dr. Nina Fedoroff, "Engineering Food for All."
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Aug 25, 2011
Huck Institutes to host 2nd Annual Bioinformatics and Genomics Retreat - September 16th & 17th, 2011
Keynote speaker Dr. Richard Edward Green. Visionary talk and panel discussion. Poster sessions. Research presentations. Open to all Penn State faculty, postdocs, students, and staff. Registration is free!
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Aug 24, 2011
Inhibiting enzymes increases success in treatment of resistant tumors
Dr. Wafik El-Deiry and his team of researchers at the College of Medicine in Hershey have recently discovered that treating hypoxic tumors in lab mice with the drug sangivamycin-like molecule 3 (SLM3) helps to keep the cancerous cells from multiplying.
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Aug 23, 2011
Ancient bones yield clues about polar bears' ancestry
After analyzing DNA samples from ancient bear bones, a team of scientists including Penn State professor and biologist Beth Shapiro suggests that the polar bears we know today actually descended from a brown bear matriline in Ireland during the last Ice Age.
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Aug 23, 2011
Scientists sequence genomes of Tasmanian devil and rare, contagious cancer
A multi-national team of scientists led by Penn State professors Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller, and Vanessa Hayes of the Venter Institute in San Diego has successfully sequenced the genomes of two Tasmanian devils and a rapidly spreading, contagious cancer known as Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD).
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Aug 09, 2011
Practical Data Analyisis course offered Fall 2011
Introduce students to the various applications of high-throughput sequencing as it relates to life sciences research.
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Jul 22, 2011
Graduate students needed for NIH Training Grant in Animal Models of Inflammation
Applications are being accepted for the four positions available as part of the NIH training grant awarded to Penn State for research in animal models of inflammation.
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Jun 26, 2011
Increased Next-Generation Sequencing Capacity
The Genomics Core Facility at University Park has increased its next-generation sequencing capacity with the addition of an Ion PGM by Ion Torrent and by upgrading their existing SOLiD 4 to the 5500xl SOLiD system.
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