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Nov 08, 2011

Huck Institutes' faculty member recognized in international interdisciplinary publications

Recent papers in Nature feature the collaborative interdisciplinary work of international scientists and Penn State professor Beth Shapiro

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Aug 29, 2011

Former Huck Institutes director in New York Times

Dr. Nina Fedoroff, "Engineering Food for All."

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Nov 15, 2010

Computations 19x faster with new adaptive algorithm

Researchers using a new algorithmic process for a heuristic embedding strategy they call "Adaptive GDDA-BLAST" can now see the results of their computations 19 times faster than with their previous computational method. The new method has the added benefits of detecting structural homology in highly divergent protein sequences and isolating secondary structural elements of transmembrane and ankyrin-repeat domains, with possibly wide-ranging impacts on human health and disease studies.

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Aug 03, 2010

Ancient gene family linked to the future of epileptic seizures

A potassium-channel gene belonging to an ancient gene family more than 542 million years old is opening new avenues in epilepsy research, and may one day allow researchers to develop more effective drugs with fewer side effects for the treatment of epileptic seizures.

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Aug 01, 2010

Faculty appointments in systems and computational genomics

We seek computer and information scientists, social scientists, life scientists, physicists, mathematicians, statisticians and biomedical researchers interested in analyzing genomic data, undertaking systems and functional genomics and in applying these results to a broad range of biological problems.

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