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Penn State Offering IMPACT Seed Grants To Support Biotechnology R&D

Insecticides Have Become More Toxic To Bees Over The Last 20 Years

Collectors find plenty of bees but far fewer species than in the 1950s

Researchers found that perfluorooctane sulfonate altered the composition of the mouse microbiome and the metabolism of the bacterial communities in their guts. IMAGE: © ISTOCK PHOTO / ROYALTYSTOCKPHOTO

Persistent environmental contaminant changes the gut microbiome of mice

Study: Walnuts Good For Gut Bacteria, Lower Heart Disease Risk

Researchers found that insecticide toxicity has increased over the last 20 years. IMAGE: NICK SLOFF, PENN STATE

Insecticides becoming more toxic to honey bees

Walnuts Promote Heart Healthy Microbiome

Hetian Hu, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, holds bacterial cellulose.

Center Seeks Proposals for 2020 IMPACT Seed Grants in Industrial Biotechnology

Why getting enough vitamin D in wintertime is so important

Penn State Professor’s Diet Plan Ranked Second-Best For Weight Loss

Why you need more Vitamin D in the winter

Nasty stuff hunters find on and in their deer: Oozing green gunk, huge warts, parasitic insects and more

The Virus Buried in a 100-Year-Old Lung

What to do when pests become homewreckers

Demand for ginseng is creating a ‘wild west’ in Appalachia

You can be full and have room for dessert

Microbiome Center Meeting

Growth of Microbiome Centers Noted In Nature Microbiology.

Weight loss diet developed at Penn State ranked second-best for 2020

Water lily of the species Nymphaea colorata. The newly reported genome sequence of the water lily sheds light on the early evolution of angiosperms, the group of all flowering plants. IMAGE: LIANGSHENG ZHANG

Water lily genome expands picture of the early evolution of flowering plants

Barbara Jean Rolls

Weight-loss plan developed at Penn State ties for No. 2 ranking