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The CDC's Laboratory Response Network is a linked system of labs across the country that rapidly responds to biological and chemical threats and public health emergencies. The Penn State team will provide the network with an accessible software platform and tools for whole-genome sequencing data analyses and interpretation of results. Credit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All Rights Reserved.

October 06, 2022

Research team gets CDC grant to strengthen infectious disease surveillance
The myxoma virus was introduced to Australia in the early 1950s to quell an out-of-control non-native rabbit population. Contrary to widespread belief that viruses get milder over time, researchers have found that myxoma has become more deadly over time. Credit: CSIRO. All Rights Reserved.

October 06, 2022

Rabbit virus has evolved to become more deadly, new research finds

October 06, 2022

How our relationship with our skin has changed dramatically over time
This healthy, 1-year-old male offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and scarlet tanager is the first-ever documented hybrid of its kind. The two species have such divergent nesting preferences that they have been on independent evolutionary trajectories for at least 10 million years — until now. Credit: Stephen Gosser. All Rights Reserved.

October 05, 2022

Birdsong reveals rare hybrid coupling 10 million years in the making

October 05, 2022

Study finds acetaminophen usage during pregnancy associated with sleep, attention problems

October 05, 2022

Mysterious Bird Is the First-Ever Documented Hybrid of Its Kind

October 05, 2022

Taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) while pregnant linked to ADHD symptoms in preschoolers

October 05, 2022

Gonorrhea became more drug resistant while attention was on COVID-19 – a molecular biologist explains the sexually transmitted superbug
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
Lance Lian

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