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Mar 18, 2024
PlantVillage announces new initiative for child welfare
With a history of successful initiatives in climate change and food security, PlantVillage at Penn State is now extending its reach and influence to address another critical global issue: child welfare.
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Mar 14, 2024
Ross Student Farm hosts 'Garden Grow-How' for community on March 25
Gardeners of all ages, experience levels and garden sizes are invited to learn new gardening skills and get their hands dirty at the Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Student Farm’s upcoming Garden Grow-How event. The event will provide seeds and advice for all on Monday, Mar. 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Heritage Hall.
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Mar 14, 2024
The Medical Minute: Colon cancer rates higher in rural areas
For health care professionals, it’s maddening. The technology needed to stop colorectal cancer before it turns deadly has never been better.
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Mar 13, 2024
Forest, stream habitats keep energy exchanges in balance, global team finds
Forests and streams are separate but linked ecosystems, existing side by side, with energy and nutrients crossing their porous borders and flowing back and forth between them.
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Mar 13, 2024
New device positions Penn State at the forefront of university research reactors
The Penn State Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC) recently received a small angle neutron scattering (SANS) device, a $9.8 million equipment donation from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany.
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Mar 12, 2024
New nasal vaccine platform helps clear COVID-19 infections in an animal model
A newly developed intranasal vaccine candidate helps to clear COVID-19 infections more quickly than controls in pre-clinical testing, according to a recent study.
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Mar 12, 2024
Biology postdoc awarded National Institutes of Health fellowship
Laurel Seemiller, a postdoctoral scholar in biology at Penn State, has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Mar 11, 2024
Researchers identify distinct sleep types and their impact on long-term health
Poor sleep habits are strongly associated with long-term chronic health conditions, according to decades of research. To better understand this relationship, a team led by researchers in the College of Health and Human Development identified four distinct patterns.
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Mar 11, 2024
GPS nanoparticle platform precisely delivers therapeutic payload to cancer cells
A newly developed “GPS nanoparticle” injected intravenously can home in on cancer cells to deliver a genetic punch to the protein implicated in tumor growth and spread, according to researchers from Penn State.
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Mar 08, 2024
How does a virus hijack insect sperm to control disease vectors and pests?
A widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm, preventing them from fertilizing eggs of females that do not have the same combination of bacteria and virus.
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