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Researchers revealed how to convert stem cells to more mature cell types using small molecules instead of expensive growth factors and reported their results in a paper published today (Aug. 26). Yuqian Jiang, first author on the paper, illustrated finding the path. IMAGE: YUQIAN JIANG/PENN STATE

August 26, 2021

Researchers use stem cells to make insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells

August 26, 2021

The Story of an African Children’s Book That Explains the Science of Skin Colour

Jim Marden, Troy Ott, Andrew Read, Maria Solares, Isabel da Silva standing outside the Huck Life Sciences Building. Isabel is holding a plaque

August 25, 2021

HGSAC Chair Thanked as Term Wraps Up

A new sensor could allow researchers to detect the rare earth element terbium from complex environmental samples, such as acid mine drainage — pictured here polluting a Pennsylvania stream. IMAGE: RACHEL A. BRENNAN, PENN STATE

August 25, 2021

New sensor can detect valuable rare earth element in non-traditional sources

August 25, 2021

Evidence shows that COVID-19 variants are largely spread among unvaccinated people

August 25, 2021

China Tells WHO It's Not Nation's Fault Investigation Into COVID-19 Origins Has Stalled

August 25, 2021

Author of 2015 vaccine study 'terrified' his work is being misinterpreted

August 24, 2021

Introducing our new Insect Biodiversity Center Education Specialist!

August 23, 2021

Here and Now: Hayes Ready to Lead Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology into the Next Phase of Impact

Within the next few years, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus becomes endemic in the global population, COVID-19 may behave like other common-cold coronaviruses, affecting mostly young children who have not yet been vaccinated or exposed to the virus, according to new modeling results led by Penn State. IMAGE: KELLY SIKKEMA, UNSPLASH

August 23, 2021

Will COVID-19 become a mostly childhood disease?

August 19, 2021

New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next?

A ginseng "garden" in a private forest plot is shown, growing in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Forest farming of the endangered forest herb, valued for its medicinal qualities, is becoming much more common. IMAGE: ERIC BURKHART/PENN STATE

August 19, 2021

Researchers help track the growth of ginseng forest farming in Pennsylvania

August 18, 2021

Reason for Not Requiring Vaccinations? Penn State Would Rather Not Say

The genomes of different populations of cacao trees like these are 99.9% identical, but it’s the structural variants in that one tenth of 1% of their genomes that accounts for the plant’s diversity in different regions and its adaptation to climate and various diseases. IMAGE: ROBERT WILSON

August 16, 2021

Study of structural variants in cacao genomes yields clues about plant diversity

August 12, 2021

Do You Need to Upgrade Your Mask Now?

August 12, 2021

Kids may eventually be more at risk of contracting COVID-19 than adults, study finds

August 10, 2021

COVID breakthrough infections soar in Massachusetts

David Hughes, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security and professor of entomology and biology in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Eberly College of Science Credit: Dan Lesher / Penn State. Creative Commons

August 10, 2021

Global food security professor named to 'Most Creative People in Business' list

August 10, 2021

How one scientist is saving crops around the world via AI-enabled apps

August 09, 2021

Scientist Slams Joe Rogan for Getting His Vaccine Study ‘Completely Wrong’

August 09, 2021

Can you help shape the future of plant disease detection?

August 08, 2021

‘Joe Rogan Is Getting This Completely Wrong,’ Says The Scientist Who Conducted The Vaccine Study

August 05, 2021

PlantVillage University Seminar Summary - Dr. James Legg and Cassava Viruses

August 04, 2021

Researchers use stem cells to make insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells

The Story of an African Children’s Book That Explains the Science of Skin Colour

HGSAC Chair Thanked as Term Wraps Up

New sensor can detect valuable rare earth element in non-traditional sources

Evidence shows that COVID-19 variants are largely spread among unvaccinated people

China Tells WHO It's Not Nation's Fault Investigation Into COVID-19 Origins Has Stalled

Author of 2015 vaccine study 'terrified' his work is being misinterpreted

Introducing our new Insect Biodiversity Center Education Specialist!

Here and Now: Hayes Ready to Lead Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology into the Next Phase of Impact

Will COVID-19 become a mostly childhood disease?

New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next?

Researchers help track the growth of ginseng forest farming in Pennsylvania

Reason for Not Requiring Vaccinations? Penn State Would Rather Not Say

Study of structural variants in cacao genomes yields clues about plant diversity

Do You Need to Upgrade Your Mask Now?

Kids may eventually be more at risk of contracting COVID-19 than adults, study finds

COVID breakthrough infections soar in Massachusetts

Global food security professor named to 'Most Creative People in Business' list

How one scientist is saving crops around the world via AI-enabled apps

Scientist Slams Joe Rogan for Getting His Vaccine Study ‘Completely Wrong’

Can you help shape the future of plant disease detection?

‘Joe Rogan Is Getting This Completely Wrong,’ Says The Scientist Who Conducted The Vaccine Study

PlantVillage University Seminar Summary - Dr. James Legg and Cassava Viruses

The 'Delta Plus' variant has spread to nearly 30 countries, but low case numbers are a sign it won't overtake Delta

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