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January 16, 2026

Disease ecologist awarded grant to study ’infectome’ effects on fungal disease

January 16, 2026

Investigating the microbiome’s role in intestinal disorder in pregnancy

January 15, 2026

New funding supports research on soil microbiomes and their resilience to change

Penn State Extension unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered tool, Tilva, at the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show aimed at giving farmers around-the-clock access to trusted answers. Credit: Andrea McCool. All Rights Reserved.

January 14, 2026

Penn State Extension AI tool, Tilva, expands access to research-based guidance

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January 13, 2026

Female athlete health, well-being focus of updated report

January 13, 2026

$1.6M to fund international study on built environment, malaria

January 12, 2026

From brain scans to alloys: Teaching AI to make sense of complex research data

The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences seeks to appoint one or two 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 Feb. 13. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

January 08, 2026

Huck Institutes seeks faculty applicants for leadership fellows program

January 08, 2026

Feature Fueling healthier aging, connecting metabolism stress and time

January 07, 2026

American Chemical Society removes ‘ACS Nano Medicine’ editor in chief

Victoria Nudell is a doctoral and medical student in the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program in Penn State's Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Medical Scientist Training Program at Penn State’s College of Medicine. Credit: Chris Koleno / Penn State. Creative Commons

January 07, 2026

Medical, doctoral student earns NIH fellowship

January 06, 2026

Flu cases surge as federal vaccine guidance changes leave families uncertain

Older men who experienced back pain were more likely to experience increased sleep problems six years later, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. Credit: AsiaVision/Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

January 05, 2026

Back pain linked to worse sleep years later in men over 65, according to study

Penn State doctoral candidate Marzia Momin is the entrepreneurial lead for NeurElectrum, a Penn State-affiliated startup developing a soft polymer neural implant designed to conform to a patient’s unique brain anatomy. Credit: Provided by Marzia Momin. All Rights Reserved.

January 05, 2026

Moving neural implant research closer to commercialization

December 28, 2025

Twenty six Indian-origin scientists named 2025 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Dipanjan Pan, Huck Chair in Nanomedicine and professor of material science and engineering as well as of nuclear engineering, has been appointed to serve as the Huck Institutes’ first director for innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. He brings an extensive track record of entrepreneurship to the role and will help other faculty members explore their options when it comes to commercializing research. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

December 22, 2025

Dipanjan Pan named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

December 19, 2025

USDA-funded studies put prunes in the osteoporosis spotlight

Study first author Michelle Zavala-Paez, doctoral candidate in Penn State’s Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, selects the main shoot of a hybrid Populus tree to collect the first fully expanded leaf for physiological measurements. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

December 18, 2025

Genetic teamwork may be the secret to climate-resilient plants, researchers find

The Thompson Hollow Fire in April 2025 in Michaux State Forest — in Cumberland County — left behind a charred landscape. Credit: Mobashsira Tasnim. All Rights Reserved.

December 17, 2025

$1.74M grant to fund Eastern Fire Network

A new high-throughput study that used publicly available data shows that E. coli proteins containing a structure called a non-covalent lasso entanglement (NCLE) are more likely to misfold and, if they are essential to the bacteria’s survival, more likely to be repaired by chaperones — the cell’s quality control machinery. Image shows that misfolded (outlined in red) essential proteins (bottom) containing NCLEs are more likely to be repaired (outlined in green) by cellular chaperones (dark grey) than non-essential proteins (top). Credit: Ian Sitarik/O’Brien Lab / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 16, 2025

For certain life-essential proteins in E. coli, repair is more likely

Researchers at Penn State found that two proteins thought to operate in harmony to regulate the genetic information-carrying messenger molecules called mRNA actually work in opposition: one protein destabilizes mRNA while the other steadies it. Credit: wildpixel/Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.