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Antibody binding-site conserved across COVID-19 virus variants

‘It was just a matter of time’ until coronavirus variant arrived in Centre County amid rising cases

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New position will support graduate and post-graduate training

Amelia Henry IMAGE: International Rice Research Institute

Plant Biology alumna receives humanitarian award

As Locusts Swarmed East Africa, This Tech Helped Squash Them

Bees on squash blossom.

Entomologist to examine how plant domestication influences pollinator evolution

Old Main with tulips in bloom.

Penn State’s Industrial Biotechnology Ecosystem Continues to Bloom

Penn State assistant professor and SAFE-T Center director, Sheridan Miyamoto, pitches the SAFE-T Center at the 2019 Tech Tournament. Miyamoto won 3rd place and $25,000 in funding.IMAGE: PENN STATE

Tech Tournament to showcase Penn State's most disruptive innovations

US Pesticide Use Is Down, but Damage to Pollinators Is Rising

Birds versus bees: Here are the winners and losers in the great pesticide trade-off

Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better?

Biochemistry and molecular biology students taking BMB 490 write down their observations of cells while in the tissue culture room.IMAGE: EMILY BELL, PENN STATE

A new approach to undergraduate research

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Origins of an outbreak

Researchers have developed a new statistical tool that can accurately estimate the replicability of a study, thus eliminating the need to duplicate the work. The method will be particularly useful for large genome-wide association studies. IMAGE: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, UNSPLASH

New statistical method eases data reproducibility crisis

Mangold et al. demonstrate that HSV-1 infection induces strain-specific transcriptional differences in infected human neurons. The scanning electron micrograph (5.77K magnification) shows a fully differentiated human SH-SY5Y neuronal cell, as used in this study. IMAGE: COLLEEN MANGOLD, PENN STATE

Exploring variations in herpes virus symptoms

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Penn State virologist Szpara to co-host COVID-19 vaccine education town halls

A mysterious ‘worm tornado’ invaded this N.J. sidewalk. Here’s why.

Can’t Take the Heat? A Taste for Spicy Foods Can Be Learned.

Images of skulls from Japanese museum collections. Top row shows two individual with blackened teeth. Bottom row shows individuals who did not have blackened teeth. IMAGE: KEN-ICHI SHINODA, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE, TSUKUBA, JAPAN

Ancient oral biome points to overall health

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

Three Huck Students Collect Grad School Awards

The Search for Animals That Could Carry the Next Deadly Virus

Mingfu Shao, the Charles K. Etner Early Career Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science IMAGE: PENN STATE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

New computational methods allow for accurate determination of gene expression

The 2021 Runner’s World Fitness Awards

A new antibiotic compound clears infection of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in mice in a single oral dose, according to a new study.IMAGE: ALISSA ECKERT/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

New antibiotic clears multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in mice in single dose