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July 16, 2021

Why Are Songbirds Across The U.S. Mysteriously Dying?
Person holding a face mask.

July 16, 2021

Penn State’s Biotechnology Community Overcomes COVID-19 Challenges
Penn State researchers developed particles that target blood clots and visualize their structures well compared to traditional ultrasound imaging. These images show blood flowing from left to right: The top image does not have the particles, while the bottom one does. IMAGE: PENN STATE/SCOTT MEDINA

July 15, 2021

Engineers find imaging technique could become treatment for deep vein thrombosis

July 15, 2021

Meme Spreads Falsehood About Vaccine Transfer Through Eating Meat
Researchers studied bushfire incidences from 2012 to 2020 within eastern Australia, and found that the severe megafires that occurred during 2019-20 were much larger and more concentrated across the landscape than in previous years. IMAGE: MATT PALMER, UNSPLASH

July 15, 2021

Australian megafires burn critical habitat of 'Vulnerable' virus-harboring bats
IMAGE: PENN STATE

July 14, 2021

Penn State Security Center announces Fall 2021 Grant Program
Professor of Geosciences Jenn Macalady

July 13, 2021

Macalady named Ecology Institute director
Researchers found that by neglecting to include response delays in their analyses, modelers grossly underestimate epidemic severity and its long-term consequences for livestock diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease in cattle. IMAGE: ETIENNE GIRARDET, UNSPLASH

July 09, 2021

Neglecting delays in outbreak response grossly underestimates epidemic severity
Using brain scans from children across the United States, researchers developed normalized growth charts for how healthy brains should grow during the first 18 years of life. IMAGE: ISTOCK/@HUMONIA/IMAGE COMPILATION: COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

July 09, 2021

Normal brain growth curves for children developed
Four research teams from across Penn State were awarded seed grants to their advance biodevice-related projects. IMAGE: ISTOCK/@IPOPBA

July 08, 2021

Penn State research teams awarded seed grants to advance biodevices
James Marden, professor of biology and associate director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, where he is also director of operations.

July 07, 2021

Two honored with 2021 Eberly College of Science Distinguished Service Awards

July 07, 2021

Webinar Alert: Where Did COVID-19 Come From?
Researchers have designed a synthetic defective SARS-CoV-2 virus that is innocuous but interferes with the real virus’s growth, potentially causing the extinction of both the disease-causing virus and the synthetic virus. IMAGE: FUSION MEDICAL ANIMATION, UNSPLASH

July 07, 2021

Fighting COVID with COVID

July 06, 2021

What to Do about Gypsy Moths Devouring Your Trees
The jellyfish, Cotylorhiza tuberculata, from Naples, Italy, hosts the symbiotic algae Philozoon medusarum.

July 01, 2021

Scientists resurrect 'forgotten' genus of algae living in marine animals
Faculty and students affiliated with the Center for Neural Engineering, who are interested in how the brain works and how to treat brain disorders and diseases, come from departments across multiple colleges and graduate programs.

July 01, 2021

National Institutes of Health funds neural engineering graduate training program
Scott Showalter, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology, left, and Emery Usher, graduate student in the Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology (BMMB) program.

July 01, 2021

How does a regulatory protein know where to bind to modulate insulin production?

June 30, 2021

The original coronavirus strain has almost disappeared in the US. One chart shows how variants took over.
Claude dePamphilis Penn State Professor of Biology and Huck Distinguished Chair in Plant Biology and Evolutionary Genomics

June 30, 2021

Claude dePamphilis named Huck Chair in Plant Biology and Evolutionary Genomics
An international collaboration led by Penn State developed a surveillance modeling tool that provides a weekly projection of expected COVID-19 cases in all African countries, based on publicly available information. IMAGE: PENN STATE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

June 29, 2021

International team develops predictive tool to help mitigate COVID-19 in Africa
David Hughes, Professor of Entomology and Biology

June 29, 2021

David Hughes named Chair in Global Food Security
An extremely rare hybrid warbler with mismatched color patterns has allowed researchers to disentangle the genetic drivers of two traits that are usually inherited together. IMAGE: MARCELLA BAIZ, PENN STATE

June 28, 2021

Weird warbler reveals genetics of its mismatched colors

June 28, 2021

Fact Check: The Facts – and Gaps – on the Origin of the Coronavirus

June 27, 2021

Health Leaders Dispel Rumors About COVID-19 Vaccine And Infertility