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Feb 25, 2025
GPCR Assay Service Center Opens at Penn State College of Medicine
New facility will enable Penn State researchers to perform large-scale drug screening and signal transduction monitoring
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Feb 20, 2025
Young adults may be more vulnerable to nicotine addiction than the middle aged
People in their late teens and early 20s may be more sensitive to nicotine and more susceptible to nicotine addiction than middle aged adults, according to a new study in mice from researchers in the Penn State Department of Biobehavioral Health.
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Feb 14, 2025
ChatGPT for birdsong may shed light on how language is wired in the human brain
Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method by researchers at Penn State trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.
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Feb 12, 2025
Sainburg named fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology
Robert Sainburg, professor of kinesiology and neurology at Penn State and Dorothy F. and J. Lloyd Huck Distinguished Chair in Kinesiology and Neurology, was recently named a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology.
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Jan 29, 2025
WATCH: Tracking disease progression in technicolor
The Laboratory for Materials in Medicine is advancing the imaging capabilities by developing contrast agents to target specific molecules and processes that may reveal more about disease progression than traditional scans.
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Jan 23, 2025
$17.9M NIH grant to research neurodevelopment disorders
Illuminating key biological pathways that underlie neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is the goal of a new five-year, $17.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Mental Health to a national team of researchers.
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Jan 24, 2025
NSF CAREER Award supports pursuit of ‘soft’ solutions for spinal cord injuries
Engineering science and mechanics researcher Tao Zhou to develop stretchy, injectable hydrogel electrodes to treat spinal cord injuries.
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Jan 22, 2025
Biosensing platform simultaneously detects vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2
Penn State engineering researchers have developed a portable and wireless device to simultaneously detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and vitamin C, a critical nutrient that helps bolster infection resistance, by integrating commercial transistors with printed laser-induced graphene.
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Jan 21, 2025
Feb. 5 lecture to discuss how sleep health affects daily life, long-term health
Orfeu Buxton, Elizabeth Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health, will present the 2025 Pattishall Research Lecture
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Jan 17, 2025
Discovery could eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines and protein-based drugs
A new storage technique can keep protein-based drugs and vaccines stable without keeping them cold. The discovery, led by researchers at Penn State, could eliminate the need for refrigeration for hundreds of life-saving medicines like insulin, monoclonal antibodies and viral vaccines.
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