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Bioprinting during surgery could help repair skin and bone

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

Squire Booker named inaugural fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

New CDC Guidelines Say You Don’t Have to Wear a Mask When Running Outdoors

Novel bioprinting procedure may enhance craniofacial skin and bone repair

There Is a Lot of Fungus Among Us

A new approach to gene editing, developed by Penn State researchres, using the CRISPR/Cas9 system to bypass disease-causing mutations in a gene. IMAGE: IURIIMOTOV/FREEPIK.COM

Bypassing broken genes

Melissa Rolls IMAGE: NATE FOLLMER

MCIBS head Melissa Rolls honored with 2021 Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

Eating a handful of mushrooms a day cuts cancer risk by third, study suggests

Researchers are investigating how carnivory-related genes, such as those involved in digestion, could help crops not only avoid pests, but also thrive in low-nutrient environments. Featured here is a type of carnivorous plant, called a butterwort. IMAGE: TANYA RENNER, PENN STATE

Little crop of horrors

Penn State study: Poa annua remembers being mowed

Doctoral candidate Chris Benson (top), David Huff, professor of turfgrass breeding and genetics (middle) and doctoral candidate Matt Sheltra preparing to plant an experiment on a Poa annua green at the Joseph E. Valentine Turfgrass Research Center at Penn State, University Park. IMAGE: PETE LANDSCHOOT

Plant Biology Students Help Solve Mystery of Turfgrass "Memory"

USDA grant to support expansion of online tool for bee conservation

Bee on flower.

USDA grant to support expansion of online tool for pollinator conservation

Maria Isabel da Silva

Physiology Graduate Student Wins Top Prize at Graduate Exhibition

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

Antibody binding-site conserved across COVID-19 virus variants

Donna Korzick Headshot

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