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Aug 11, 2023
Newly identified protein function may reveal understanding of lifetime fertility
A protein in mouse ovaries regulates the formation of the ovarian follicle reserve, which comprises a mammal’s lifetime supply of egg cells and surrounding support cells, according to new study conducted by a U.S.-Canadian team.
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Aug 09, 2023
College of Ag Sciences scientist receives grant to study gut homeostasis, diet
Can plants evolved to resist infection help humans do the same?
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Aug 09, 2023
Q&A: Carbon voyage
Penn State Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Brian Fronk and Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jacqueline O’Connor, have received a three-year, $2 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop a shipboard carbon-capture system for use with naval gas turbines.
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Aug 09, 2023
Mussels inspire an eco-friendly way to extract critical rare earth elements
Rare earth elements play a key role in clean energy, vital to the production of lightweight, efficient batteries and essential components in wind turbines.
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Aug 08, 2023
Playing catch-up on weekends may not improve cardiovascular cost of sleep loss
Whether it’s work or play that prevents us from getting enough shut-eye during the week, assuming we can make up for it by sleeping in over the weekend is a mistake.
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Aug 04, 2023
Influenza shows no seasonality in tropics, posing challenges for health care
In temperate climates, like North America and Europe, flu season starts in the fall, peaks in the winter and ends in the spring.
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Aug 03, 2023
Microbe-stuffed soil crusts menaced by climate change
Using a novel method to detect microbial activity in biological soil crusts, or biocrusts, after they are wetted, a Penn State-led research team in a new study uncovered clues that will lead to a better understanding of the role microbes play in forming a living skin over many semi-arid ecosystems around the world. The tiny organisms — and the microbiomes they create — are threatened by climate change.
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Aug 03, 2023
New, simple and accessible method creates potency-increasing structure in drugs
Chemical structures called cyclopropanes can increase the potency and fine-tune the properties of many drugs, but traditional methods to create this structure only work with certain molecules and require highly reactive — potentially explosive — ingredients.
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Aug 02, 2023
Penn State faculty member elected to plant pathology society leadership
Carolee Bull, professor of systematic bacteriology and plant pathology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been elected to the presidential lineage of the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
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Jul 31, 2023
Anthropology faculty member Nina Jablonski named Atherton Professor
Following a highly distinguished 17 years in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology Nina G. Jablonski has been named an Atherton Professor.
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