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December 17, 2024

Penn State Herbarium adds historic perspective to modern research
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December 16, 2024

Two Huck graduate students receive American Heart Association fellowships
New research finds sex-specific regions of the brain can relieve the detrimental effects of chronic stress in male and female mice. Left: Schematic showing a cortical microcircuit with three types of interneurons expressing somatostatin (SST), parvalbumin (PV) or vasointestinal peptide (VIP) and their distinct patterns of innervation of glutamatergic output neurons (PNs), with thin lines representing axons that send chemical signals and the thicker lines of PNs representing dendrites that receive information. There is selective innervation of the distal ends of PN dendrites by axons of SST neurons. Right: Increased activity of SST neurons by genetically induced disinhibition, on top right, or by chemogenetic activation of SST neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex, on bottom right, leads to stress resilience and facilitates the reversal of the detrimental behavioral effects of stress exposure in male but not female mice. Credit: Bernhard Lüscher / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 16, 2024

Brain regions that relieve effects of chronic stress in mice differ based on sex
In his research, Xiaogang Hu, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, focuses on creating wearable assistive robotic systems for people with limited use of their limbs, especially their hands, with the goal of the user intuitively controlling the systems and devices on which they rely. Credit: Kate Myers/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

December 16, 2024

Person-centered, bio-inspired research leads to improved control of prosthetics
Nate Carey is a native of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. Credit: Sean Yoder / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 16, 2024

Penn State undergraduate Nate Carey earns Marshall Scholarship

December 16, 2024

Penn State awarded grant for workforce development for Spanish-speaking farmers
A team led by Penn State researchers used principles of pulse monitoring in traditional Chinese medicine to design a pressure-sensing platform to identify the optimal pulse signal, which they combined with a machine learning model to also predict blood pressure. Credit: Provided by Huanyu "Larry" Cheng. All Rights Reserved.

December 13, 2024

Old wisdom meets new tech: Traditional Chinese medicine inspires pulse sensors

December 13, 2024

8-year-old boy’s discovery rewrites 100 years of insect and plant knowledge

December 12, 2024

Testing milk for bird flu begins nationwide. In PA, it's happening at Penn State
The genomes of Kirtland’s warblers show extensive signs of inbreeding, according to a new study, which could guide continuing conservation efforts for the once-endangered songbird. Credit: Nathan Cooper. All Rights Reserved.

December 11, 2024

Once-endangered Kirtland’s warblers show extensive signs of inbreeding in genome
Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

December 11, 2024

Center for Socially Responsible AI awards seed funding to seven diverse projects
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December 10, 2024

WHO recommends universal introduction for rubella vaccination
Schematic of cortical microcircuit showing connections of interneurons and output neurons

December 10, 2024

Relieving chronic stress in the brains of male and female mice
The awards ceremony was held Nov. 19 to celebrate a year of outstanding success and accomplishments in research. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

December 10, 2024

College of Ag Sciences celebrates faculty, staff achievements in research
Through studies on rats, a team of researchers at Penn State has pinpointed the exact moment of loss of consciousness due to anesthesia, mapping what happens in different brain regions during that moment. Credit: Provided by Nanyin Zhang . All Rights Reserved.

December 10, 2024

Brain mechanisms underpinning loss of consciousness identified
The nine-acre Sustainability Experience Center lies on the edge of Penn State’s University Park campus and provides a living laboratory for students, faculty and the community to research and learn about sustainability. The site is home to the campus Community Garden and five ongoing research and outreach projects hosted by various departments and colleges at the University. Credit: Penn State Sustainability. All Rights Reserved.

December 10, 2024

Penn State ranks second in the US in 2025 QS sustainability rankings
WHO recommends universal introduction for rubella vaccination

December 10, 2024

WHO recommends universal introduction for rubella vaccination
Keefe Manning, Penn State professor of biomedical engineering with a courtesy appointment as a professor of surgery, was elected fellow of the American Heart Association by the association's stroke council. Credit: Poornima Tomy/Penn State . All Rights Reserved.

December 09, 2024

Biomedical engineering professor elected American Heart Association Fellow
Credit: Dina Constantinides. All Rights Reserved.

December 09, 2024

The stories that defined 2024 for the One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State
Inhye Kim, an assistant research professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, works in the lab at the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building at University Park. Credit: Poornima Tomy/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

December 06, 2024

Tracking immune cell brain cancer therapies with ultrasound

December 05, 2024

The Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Getting More Dangerous
Aditya Sapre, a doctoral student studying chemical engineering, participates in the 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition. Sapre would go on to take home first place at the Penn State competition last spring. Credit: Jillian Wesner / Fox Graduate School at Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

December 04, 2024

Finalists named for Penn State 2024-25 Three Minute Thesis competition
Researchers printed a centimeter cube cartilage construct via high-throughput Integrated Tissue Fabrication System for Bioprinting (HITS-Bio). Credit: Courtesy of Ozbolat Lab at Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 03, 2024

New bioprinting technique creates functional tissue 10x faster

December 03, 2024

Better habitats for forest farming wild leeks could help future foraging demands