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Into The Wild: Animals the Latest Frontier in COVID Fight

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

What Else Could Covid Inflict on Us? Ask Australian Rabbits

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

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

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

The Fight to Save the Embattled Monarch Butterfly

SROP students practicing team leadership

2022 Summer Research Opportunities Program is Seeking Faculty Mentors

Students from David Geiser’s lab in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology visited the Nittany Lion Shrine in July 2019. From left, back row, are Benedicta Swalarsk-Parry and Shawn Chang. In the middle row are Jane Ramaswe, Terry Torres Cruz, Emma Wallace and David Geiser. In front are Daniela Chacon and Chyanna McGee. Ramaswe and Swalarsk-Parry were part of a student exchange program with the University of Pretoria’s Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology. Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

Alliance between College of Ag Sciences, University of Pretoria yields benefits

The Changing Microbiomes Symposium will bring together researchers working at the bleeding edge of the transition to functional and process-driven microbiome research. These discoveries transcend systems; therefore, the symposium will span terrestrial and aquatic contexts and host-associated and free-living microbial communities.  Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

Microbiome Center to host ‘Changing Microbiomes’ symposium in early June

How will we know the COVID pandemic is over? And how do we get there?

Inhalable aerogel triggers immunity to COVID-19 in mice, may block transmission

Inhalable aerogel triggers immunity to COVID-19 in mice, may block transmission

Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

Huck Students Receive Alumni Awards

Rise in COVID cases abroad, presence of omicron subvariant may foreshadow increase in US: Experts

Rise in COVID-19 infections overseas may foreshadow increase in US, experts say

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New art installation reflects Penn State research on energy and environment

How in the World Did We Get Venus Flytraps?

New study of the relationships among members of the largest subfamily of grasses reveals gene-duplication events (represented by colored boxes) that contributed to the adaptation of the plants to cooler temperatures. Credit: Lin Zhang. All Rights Reserved.

How grasses like wheat can grow in the cold

EPA Expected to Extend Use of Bee-Killing Pesticides

How Carnivorous Plants Evolved

Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyse insects

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Studying diseases with better delivery of gene-editing tools

COVID-19 has now been found in 29 kinds of animals, which has scientists concerned

Will COVID Mutate in Animals and Jump Back to Humans?