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Plant Biology graduate student Lily Cherry (left) and assistant professor Liana Burghardt dig up alfalfa plants from the alfalfa variety trials at Rock Springs. Credit: Regina Bledsoe. All Rights Reserved.

April 28, 2022

New plant science team gets grants from USDA-NIFA for research on soil microbes

April 28, 2022

Syracuse University to Award 4 Honorary Degrees at 2022 Commencement

April 26, 2022

COVID is spreading in deer. What does that mean for the pandemic?
Grevillea tree seedlings planted at the Machakus tree nursery. Credit: PlantVillage. All Rights Reserved.

April 22, 2022

PlantVillage Team awarded $1M in Elon Musk XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition
Edward Amoah Credit: Daniel Lesher / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

April 21, 2022

Ecology grad student awarded $100K XPRIZE in Carbon Removal Competition

April 19, 2022

Help for Ukraine scholars: Higher education rallies to provide jobs, support
Squire Booker, Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State, Holder of the Eberly Family Distinguished Chair in Science, and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

April 18, 2022

Booker receives Hans Neurath Award from Protein Society

April 14, 2022

PlantVillage receives Cisco Foundation grant to help communities capture carbon
Dr. Dino J. Ravnic Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

April 13, 2022

Ravnic named first Huck Chair in Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Sciences
A woman working on potting at the PlantVillage tree nursery located in Busia County, Kenya. Credit: PlantVIllage. All Rights Reserved.

April 13, 2022

PlantVillage receives Cisco Foundation grant to help communities capture carbon

April 12, 2022

Pennsylvania Wants You to Stop the Spotted Lanternfly Before It Hatches

April 10, 2022

Covid-19 update with Dr Andrew Read
Drawing of a scientist working with human skeletal remains and ancient DNA. Credit: Marija Stojkovic. / Penn State. Creative Commons

April 07, 2022

First European farmers' heights did not meet expectations
Among those attending the Emerging Animal Infectious Disease Conference at Penn State were, front row, from left, Kevin Brightbill, state veterinarian and director of the Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services; Rick Roush, dean of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences; Jennifer Lester Moffitt, undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs for the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and Deanna Behring, assistant dean and director of international programs, College of Agricultural Sciences. Second row, from left, Ruth Nissly, research technologist, Penn State’s Animal Diagnostic Lab; Ty Butler, administrative support coordinator, Ag Sciences Global; Sandeep Prabhu, head of the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences; Blair Siegfried, associate dean for research and graduate education and director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station; Dave Swartz, Penn State Extension assistant director for animal systems programs; Andrew Read, Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology and the director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Claudia Schmidt, assistant professor of marketing and local/regional food systems; Vivek Kapur, professor of microbiology and infectious diseases; and Suresh Kuchipudi, professor, Huck chair in emerging infectious diseases and associate director of the Animal Diagnostic Laboratory. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

April 07, 2022

Preventing, controlling spread of animal diseases focus of forum at Penn State
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April 06, 2022

First round of funded projects announced from the Benkovic Research Initiative
A new study shows that mutation frequencies in mitochondrial DNA are lower, and increase less with age, in the precursors of egg cells than in the cells of other tissues in a primate. Mitochondrial DNA was sequenced in liver, skeletal muscle, and single oocyte samples from 1- to 23-year-old rhesus macaques. New mutations increased with age the fastest in liver, and the slowest in oocytes. Mutation frequency in oocytes increased only until the age of 9 years. The light-strand origin of replication (OriL), the region responsible for copying the mitochondrial genomes, was found to be a hotspot of mutation accumulation with aging in liver. Credit: Barbara Arbeithuber. All Rights Reserved.

April 04, 2022

Are egg cells in aging primates protected from mutations?

April 04, 2022

Are egg cells in aging primates protected from mutations?

April 03, 2022

Into The Wild: Animals the Latest Frontier in COVID Fight

April 01, 2022

Microgreens are tiny, tasty and packed with nutrients; How to grow them indoors, year-round

March 31, 2022

What Else Could Covid Inflict on Us? Ask Australian Rabbits

March 25, 2022

Experts fear U.S. won’t see next COVID surge coming

March 23, 2022

Omicron subvariant BA.2: Is COVID-19 surge in Europe coming to US?

March 23, 2022

Is the latest COVID-19 surge in Europe coming to the U.S.?

March 21, 2022

The Fight to Save the Embattled Monarch Butterfly