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A new study by Penn State researchers was the first to observe an association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and child sleep challenges. Credit: Getty Images | dragana991. All Rights Reserved.

October 04, 2022

Prenatal acetaminophen use linked to sleep, attention problems in preschoolers

October 04, 2022

Augmented reality exhibition ‘Zombie Ant Experience’ invades Penn State Berks

Bull receiving Inaugural Commonwealth Award from Bordenstein for commitment to and influences on the good of the microbiome sciences and community. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

October 03, 2022

Bull steps down at Microbiome Center, looks forward to future innovation

o study the outcomes of virus spillover, researchers placed small amounts of a virus onto petri-dish plates harboring populations of different Caenorhabditis species to see if the virus could replicate. Credit: David Kennedy, Penn Statet. All Rights Reserved.

September 30, 2022

Disease outcomes differ by new host species in virus spillover experiments

September 29, 2022

Acetaminophen use during pregnancy can impact kids' behavior, researchers warn

September 29, 2022

Tina Lasisi wants to untangle the evolution of human hair

Penn State Berks students Nicolas Fay and Lestine Payne view the Zombie Ant Experience, along with Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Todd Migliaccio. Credit: Annamarie Given / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

September 28, 2022

'Zombie Ant Experience’ invades Penn State Berks

Kateryna Makova, Verne M. Willaman Chair in the Life Sciences and professor of biology at Penn State. Credit: Nate Follmer / Penn State. Creative Commons

September 28, 2022

Makova awarded Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology

September 27, 2022

Game-changing stem cell engineer Lance Lian featured on Symbiotic podcast

September 24, 2022

Spotted lanternflies are thriving in the Northeast. Scientists fear they could spread farther

September 22, 2022

The secret, lucrative world of Pennsylvania’s wild ginseng diggers

The researchers sampled soils under cover crops belonging to three plant functional types at plots that are part of a long-term cover-crops experiment at Penn State’s Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center in central Pennsylvania. Credit: Michael Houtz/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

September 21, 2022

Mixed cover crops capture carbon in soil, could help mitigate climate change

Sarah Bordenstein, director of "Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project," and associate research professor in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

September 20, 2022

Heard on Campus: Sarah Bordenstein, The Wolbachia Project

After U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (center) announced funding for USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative, Armen Kemanian, professor of production systems and modeling (second from left), discussed a Penn State-led collaboration with dairy industry groups and producers that was funded to develop climate-friendly practices and commodities in dairy. Credit: Michael Houtz, College of Agricultural Sciences. All Rights Reserved.

September 19, 2022

Penn State awarded grant to help dairy farmers develop climate-smart commodities

Nicole Lazar (left), and Laura Weyrich

September 19, 2022

Lazar, Weyrich selected as inaugural Huck Leadership Fellows

A session of the Millennium Cafe

September 16, 2022

Millennium Café series to feature special editions in October, November

September 15, 2022

Does squishing invasive lanternflies really help stop their spread?

HGSAC student leaders

September 14, 2022

Huck graduate students elect co-chairs for new academic year

Penn State researchers will study the monkeypox virus to understand the potential for it to spill over from humans to animals, as well as its pathogenesis — or disease development — in animal and human cells in vitro. In addition, they will study potential targets for therapeutics to treat the monkeypox disease. Credit: Getty Images | kontekbrothers. All Rights Reserved.

September 13, 2022

What are potential animal reservoirs for monkeypox?

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September 13, 2022

Microbiome Center announces inaugural Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellows

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute welcomes its new class of TL1 scholars. Top row from left to right are Aarti Bhat, Rachael Bishop, Janhavi Damani and Zachary DiMattia. Bottom row from left to right are Sara Mills‑Huffnagle, Makenzie Nolt and Rhea Sullivan. Credit: Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. All Rights Reserved.

September 12, 2022

Six graduate students begin Translational Research Training Program

September 09, 2022

Penn State-led team develops more efficient system for delivering CRISPR to stem cells

Sweet Frogs Team photo

September 09, 2022

Penn State team wins Global Frog Discovery Challenge

September 08, 2022

Podcast explores the tension of teaching evolutionary science in public schools

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