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Jan 29, 2024
Fungi into the future
Penn State researchers have aided the state’s important mushroom industry for nearly 100 years, and they’re still going strong. But mushrooms aren’t just for eating anymore
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Jan 29, 2024
Penn State entomologists appointed to national committee on pollinator research
Two entomologists in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have been appointed to serve on a new U.S. Department of Agriculture subcommittee on pollinators
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Jan 25, 2024
Penn State, QIAGEN announce strategic partnership to advance microbiome sciences
Penn State, known for innovations in interdisciplinary research, and QIAGEN LLC, a leader in sample-to-insight solutions, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to foster advancements in microbiome sciences
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Jan 25, 2024
Undergraduate research may contribute to COVID-19 treatments
Brandywine undergraduates worked with professor to investigate potential new therapies to inhibit an enzyme that helps the coronavirus replicate
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Jan 24, 2024
Foodborne-pathogen Listeria may hide from sanitizers in biofilms
An estimated 1,600 people in the U.S. contract a serious infection from Listeria bacteria in food each year. Penn State researchers may now better understand how the bacteria, called Listeria monocytogenes, survive and persist in fruit-packing plants by evading and surviving sanitizers.
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Jan 23, 2024
Podcast reveals the scale and complexity of global water challenges
Second only to the air we breathe, safe drinking water is the most indispensable element on Earth for human survival. Each of us requires it to live. But alarmingly, roughly one quarter of the global population struggles to attain it, according to the United Nations.
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Jan 22, 2024
Altered light-harvesting complex in a cyanobacterium allows low-energy light use
Researchers have isolated and determined the molecular structure of the light-harvesting antenna that helps some cyanobacteria — formerly referred to as blue-green algae — produce energy through photosynthesis even in lower-energy light.
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Jan 22, 2024
Engineering professor named National Academy of Inventors fellow
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named Qiming Zhang, distinguished professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering, a fellow
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Jan 11, 2024
Predicting correct dosage may improve success of drug repurposing
Penn State researchers developed a model to predict how much of a drug designed to treat one disease may be needed to be effective against others
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Jan 09, 2024
Huck Leadership Fellows Program Currently Accepting Applications
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences seeks to appoint 1-2 energetic Leadership Fellows with a strong background in interdisciplinary research for a one-year term, with the possibility for an additional year extension. The deadline to apply is February 12, 2024.
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